I’m curious about what some of you envision will happen at a high school:
1. How many security guards are necessary to man entrances in a medium sized high school of 2,000 students every morning? Do we understand the manpower necessary for this? Who pays for this? For Most districts in America, this isn’t financially feasible.
2. Since school starts at varying times for students depending on extra curricular activities and academic needs, what happens if the band teacher has an early morning rehearsal? What if a student wants to come early to work with his/her math teacher?
Additionally, most teachers arrive one hour or less before the bell rings. That’s their contract time. If we want them to arrive earlier to assist with security, you’re going to have to compensate them with the understanding that you’re diverting time, money, and energy away from their true focus, teaching. Most students arrive 20 minutes or less before the bell rings. If you’re going to move 2,000 students through a handful of exits and scanners, you’re going to encounter massive tardiness in first period. This means that the bell schedule must significantly change for all schools. For most districts, changing the bell schedule just isn’t financially feasible.
3. What happens to late arrivals and check ins? Must a security guard man the entrance and metal detector all day everyday? How wouldn’t that be a waste of resources?
4. Since most schools have no way of preventing students from leaving campus during lunch, what happens once lunch ends and class periods after lunch begins? Do we understand the logistical nightmare of trying to start post lunch classes while scanning kids back in after re-entering the building? After a fire alarm is pulled and everyone evacuates, have we thought about the delay of having to re-examine every student upon re-entry? When are students supposed to learn?
5. Many schools struggle just to afford secretaries, buy new copiers, and pay for enough desks for their kids. Where’s this security money coming from? What other industrialized countries can we look at to pattern this security measures over? Who deals with the liability issues that will undoubtedly occur when students accuse security personnel of confiscating their personal property or violating them physically (as we have seen with TSA)? Administration officials are already dealing with enough. For most schools, the measures suggested by the NRA are mocked by educators. And for good reason. Those who think any of these NRA inspired suggestions are good ideas, please visit your local middle or high school. Take a few days off for work and shadow the principal or a teacher.
Do we really want to make all of these drastic changes to the education system without a full guarantee that this will improve security and not hinder academic outcomes?
Why not just repeat what has been done in literally every single industrialized country and regulate these penis enhancers for stupid white republicans?
