ATTN: ALL SCHOOL BOARDS
NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A 32-year-old milk truck driver took about a dozen girls hostage in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, barricaded the doors with boards & killed at least 3 girls and himself, authorities said.
It was the nation's 3rd deadly school shooting in less than a week, & similar to an attack just days earlier at a school in Colorado.
Last week at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colo.,a man took several girls hostage in a school classroom & then killed one of them & himself. Authorities said the man sexually molested the girls.
On Friday, a school principal shot dead in Cazenovia, Wis. A 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder in the killing.
Nationwide, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre remains the deadliest school shooting, with 15 people dead, including the 2 teenage gunmen.
This deadly behavior will not stop! It is time for armed policemen in ALL of our schools.
2006-10-02 09:52:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
FIND the money Boards of Education.!! If necesswary go to President Bush!! He has the power and influence to gain approval for policemen to be placed in every single school across this nation !
2006-10-02 10:01:25 · update #1
mhs!
well obviously there weren't any policemen in the schools that have suffered thus far!
And ALL schools do not have guards. Where have YOU been?
Impersonate? I'm talking about Policemen HIRED by School Boards; people they would KNOW. Not some rent a cop!
Policemen who would guard all entrances and exits every single school day.
I have to laugh at the idea of "Gun control"
There's already GUN Control.
and where has it gotten us?
2006-10-02 10:14:10 · update #2
Yes.
2006-10-02 09:55:42 · answer #1 · answered by ?girl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
armed guards at all entrances and exits would not be practical and to top it what would they do to keep kids out. It's just not a practical answer. When I was in school there were several shootings over 6 years and not a one of them ever stepped foot on campus. How would a guard stop that. The metal detector thing yah that's it not going to school and not breinging anything metal? It was so easy to get a knife or other weapon past the "security". Besides it still couldn't keep others out. They would have needed to build a 10 to 15 foot solid wall around the campus that couldn't be scaled in any hopes of keeping everyone out and everyone in. There is no realistic way to accomidate a full school of students entering and exiting every day and still having a "perfect, secure, monitored" area.
As I think someone said the real answer is to try and find a solution to these peoples problems. Why are these kids so hurt and so depressed. Why didn't these men get help for their needs? That is the real solution not treating our children like prisioners.
2006-10-03 11:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tragic, of course, but just the "story du jour". If you REALLY cared about kid's safety, you would be arguing for helmet laws for all occupants in motor vehicles. A few dozen children are shot by lunatics every year, but literally hundreds die or suffer permanent brain damage each year because of head injuries in car accidents.
You cannot change the fact that the world is (and always was and will be) a dangerous place, but if we are going to "wave sticks", we should wave them in the direction likely to do the most good.
Identified School-Related Violent Deaths: 2005-2006 School Year
Total Deaths: 27
Breakdown by Type:
Shooting: 15
Suicides: 1
Murder-Suicide: 4
Fight-Related: 0
Stabbing: 3
Other: 4
Identified Car-Accident-Related Deaths: 2005-2006 School Year
Total Deaths: >1800
2006-10-02 10:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The solution is to scrap the public primary school system, and institute mandatory testing for students.
That means people would be either homeschooled (ideally), parochially or privately schooled.
Publish the standard, hold parents accountable for their children meeting the requirements of the standard, and allow parents every reasonable means to encourage their respective children to perform in accordance with expectations.
Consolidate educational materials and resources and organize those that are essential under the care of the public library system, perhaps in a program known as the Public Educational Assets System ("PEAS"); that way, they're available to everyone.
Obviously, you want supervision in the chemistry lab, etc.; a portion of the former PS budget would go to support this.
Land and real property formerly of the PS system, having commercial value, would need to be reclassified: movable assets would be sold except as necessary (as in the case of chemistry lab equipment and reagents) in the PEAS.
Certain properties would be transferred to the library system for administering the PEAS (land, buildings and things like lab equipment and chemicals), which would be available to students at no charge.
The unused properties would be re-zoned (which might require amendment of State constitutions) and sold to businesses pending local approval.
In that way, parents would be able to attract into their "greater neighborhood" those businesses in which they work -- putting many closer to their respective children.
Other neighborhoods might find the space better used by groceries and other conveniences. Colleges might elect to locate on the properties: there's no reason they couldn't be used for educational or administrative purposes.
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2006-10-02 11:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's time US (and maybe Canada) start to address the reasons for this horrible issue.
Among all schools throughout the world, extremely few have security measures stricter than some US schools, where it still doesn't appear to help much.
It's time to understand what brings about the frustration and rage that trigger these homicidal rampages. It is in fact a matter of culture, of the f*cked up American culture of fear and anxiety.
2006-10-02 14:27:28 · answer #5 · answered by jarynth3 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
u clearly havnt been to a high school or a middle school in a while. there are already policemen in our schools and can call for back up anytime to the local police department.
2006-10-02 10:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by mhsportsfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If its so easy to inpersonate a cop, imagine how easy it is to inpersonate a armed guard.
2006-10-02 10:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by X-Woman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, fix the gun problem with more guns.
2006-10-02 10:00:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
DEFINITELY. IM SO GLAD IM NOT IN H/S ANYMORE, BUT WHEN I WAS I WOULD ALWAYS HAVE NIGHTMARES OF THIS WEIRD GUY WHO WOULD ALWAYS WEAR TRENCHES IN MY SCHOOL, SHOOTING UP THE PLACE DURING AN ASSEMBLY. I KNOW - SCARY!!!!
2006-10-02 09:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by HeyQuestion 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that wont happen, a logical solution would be metal detectors
2006-10-02 09:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋