how many of you think they should build storm shelters or basements to keep are children safe,we have them at are homes why not at our schools?
2007-03-02 01:04:30 · 11 answers · asked by deedee 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
crabby-get another soap box. No one is downplaying the other issues here. I agree that they should build storm shelters in schools in areas prone to tornadoes. Obviously halls arent very safe..and they act like "ok get in the hall cause thats the only place we have to keep you safe"...so ridiculous. They need to take our tax money and build a safer place for our kids. If they make it mandatory our kids are in their school, then they need to protect them to the best of the abilty- and hallways arent the best they cn provide.
2007-03-02 07:16:08 · answer #1 · answered by kate b 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, that would be really nice if all schools and buildings had storm shelters and basements. But unfortunately, many people are under the mentality that "it just won't happen to us." And actually, a lot of places don't have basements. I live in Enterprise, AL, and my home does not have a basement or storm shelter. Yesterday, during the storm, I went to the safest place possible--the innermost bathroom of my home, that didn't have any windows. So unfortunately, we don't always have storm shelters and basements in our homes, just like we don't always have them in the schools. There are often reasons for that (for example, the cost of building such shelters or basements). Or, in some places, basements just aren't practical. If you live in a swampy area, your basement just isn't going to hold up. But yes, ideally, it would be great if schools had storm shelters and basements. What happened yesterday was indeed a tragedy.
2007-03-02 01:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by doza1621 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the south not everyone has basements. I live 7 miles away from Enterprise. Most people don't even them in their homes. If you lived here you see first hand. This is a tragic situation and not alot could've been done except take the precautions. EHS was in the direct path of the 800 yards wide tornado.
2007-03-02 17:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by preppy624 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that there should be storm shelters in our schools, but it would be impracticle to build a shelter large enough to house the average number of students in an entire school. How would they justify the space needed and the cost for an area that most schools would never use? Its a cop out I know but that would be the argument against it.
2007-03-02 01:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by sarge 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The con's have such one song minds. Why no longer furnish solid tornado shelters in faculties? could cost slightly money, so scratch that concept. do no longer choose huge government performing as a nanny state to the republican conservatives. If something may be made safer that should, yet no longer inevitably will save, all lives - why no longer do it. given which you raise god (what could you anticipate from a con), if he existed, why could he deliver a tornado to kill those infants?
2016-10-02 06:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great idea but if it was proposed the mention of who would pay for it would come up.....people would complain about possibility of taxes going up.....and people know it's true....as for sending the kids home,hindsight is 20/20.....can you be 100 % sure that some of the buses would not have been in the path of the tornado then people would be saying why did they send them home
2007-03-02 10:26:30 · answer #6 · answered by charmel5496 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that they should have allowed the children to go home when they first announced the severe weather over an hour earlier.
I cannot imagine what those poor people are going through,God be with them.
2007-03-02 01:43:42 · answer #7 · answered by kim 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Schools are very safe--this is a tragedy--but it is also a fluke. There is no such thing as "perfectly safe."--and so-called "do-gooders" who are looking for a way to make a name for themselves or pretend they are "caring for children" need to get over it. If these people really cared about kids, they'd do something about the educational system and its abuses.
For example--why aren't you up in arms about the dozens of teachers (the latest yesterday in SC) who are sexually abusing children? Or about the lack of information that leads many kids to get involved in sexual activities or drugs--a lot more than 8 of them end up dead.
Oh, I see--those are real problems--you might actually have to DO something if you "got involved."
2007-03-02 03:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Sad.
2007-03-02 01:12:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
good question.
2007-03-02 15:50:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋