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Militarized Schooling? "Newtown Was A Nuclear Bomb That Changed Everything"
The following sign on the grass in front of a Texas school sums up where we are with the militarization of education in America.
As WSJ reports, public schools nationwide are greeting students for the fall term with a host of new security measures including adding armed guards, giving guns to employees, installing perimeter fencing, and bulletproof glass. "It's kind of the way of the world, unfortunately," notes one parent, but bulking up on security has led some parents and experts to question how it affects students. The idea of "hardening" schools against intruders took on urgency after Dec 2012: "Newtown was a nuclear bomb that changed the whole landscape of everything."
"The reality is that we do have to be careful, and the children have to be aware of it, too," she said. "It's kind of the way of the world, unfortunately."
But, as WSJ reports, bulking up on security has led some parents and experts to question how it affects students.
"We would like greater attention to the psychological safety measures," said Stephen Brock, president of the National Association of School Psychologists. "They need to not just be safe at school but also feel safe at school."
From a percentage standpoint, schools remain a safe place for children.
A joint report by the U.S. Education Department and Justice Department released in June found that less than 2% of youth homicides occurred at schools between the 1992-93 and 2010-11 school years.
Yet a stream of violent incidents at schools since Sandy Hook has added to the concern about school security, with preliminary estimates from the joint report saying there were at least 17 school-associated violent deaths in the 11 months after the December 2012 shooting.
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The idea of "hardening" schools against intruders took on urgency after the December 2012 killing of 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Conn., with districts considering a variety of measures, from adding armed guards or giving guns to employees to installing perimeter fencing and bulletproof glass.
"Newtown was a nuclear bomb that changed the whole landscape of everything just because of the magnitude of it," said Jamie Grime, superintendent of Montpelier Exempted Village Schools in northwestern Ohio. "Security has always been an issue, but maybe not a huge issue. Now it is."
This will end well...
Returning students at Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Fla. found 20 new armed officers in the elementary schools in the first year of a plan costing about $1 million.
The school board also approved security training for employees, the hiring of a safety consultant and more measures to control school access, such as fencing and buzzers.
Meanwhile, all 16 schools in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, public school district have been enclosed in security fencing and each school limits visitors to a single entry point, officials said. This September, for the first time, two police officers will patrol elementary schools, at a cost of roughly $68,000 from the district's state funding.
...officials continue to allow four anonymous employees to carry firearms on school property. Bulletproof glass and panic buttons have been installed, and officials held schoolwide assemblies for security training.
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I refused to do a science project back in 8th grade. Teacher didn't fail me just gave me a D for the class to get rid of me.
Looking back, I think I felt I wouldn't be learning much compared to the effort put into it. Plus I dislike being a performing ape.
I would not even think, DREAM, of even CALLING my former primary or high schools in order to ''just pop in and see what the old campus looks like" to reminisce nostalgic. My University had a blood bath and they would arrest me and escort me off campus.
An unmarried man in his 50's? May as well be a serial killer, rapist, paedophile, holding a dildo in one hand and an M60 in the other, walking through campus naked.
You would have to be insane to do it in the USSA in 2014.
This is not progress, the USA is not moving forward, the future is not better than the past.
there is something seriously broken in a society that puts armed guards into its elementary schools.
Seems like "education" has fully morphed into another government racket.
Like "everything" else. And this is still just the warm-up act.
Just like the Boston non-bombing, these half-baked false flags are getting really sloppy, and the perpetrators don't even seem to care how blatantly false they are. In fact, I can't think of a false flag in recent memory that wasn't completely exposed on the internet within hours or days.
I mean seriously, 26 supposedly dead and not a single survivor? That's right up there with taking a guy who supposedly just had his leg blown off, sitting him upright in a wheelchair, and he doesn't bleed out in a matter of seconds.
Let's put this in perspective...
Mass shootings toll exceeds 900 in past seven years
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/21/mass-shootings-dome...
US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-murdered-5000-innocent-civilians-...
Bear in mind that most of those "mass shooting" victims were NOT anywhere near a school. I'd rather take my chances with good old fashioned school shootings than police, let alone yahoos with guns.
When the "cure" is worse than the "disease", just let the disease run its course. America seems remarkably averse to learning this lesson.