Comments on: Police in our schools

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:01:00 +0000

I think anyone can get used to anything after awhile. My main point, however, is basically “where have we come as a culture to think we need police in our schools?” The need for it speaks of a culture gone astray. Especially since our original safety plan included them in elementary schools!

Now districts are talking about allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons. Interesting developments in the eduworld.

By: Strausser

Strausser — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:27:00 +0000

I used to teach at a pure middle school (only grades 7 and and we always had an officer patroling the campus. At first this was a strange and uncomfortable sight but I definitely grew to appreciate it considering the amount of drug deals that were going on in the bathrooms and a couple of students bringing weapons to school.

Now you might think that I was in the “hood” but actually it was nowhere close - pretty much just a middle of the road socio-economic neighborhood. Anytime you put 1200 twelve through fourteen year olds in one place, you are just asking for hormonal instability.

I would hate to think what campus would have been like WITHOUT having a cop there.

Strausser

By: Alex Hutchinson

Alex Hutchinson — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:01:00 +0000

I thought you might be interested to know that there is a new novel about school violence that goes deep into the psychology of the students. Not only does it address the fighting in a high schol but also the home and street lives of these kids. The book is called Almost Columbine.

By: jodi_a4givensinner

jodi_a4givensinner — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:38:00 +0000

You said: That reminds me. The school board would prefer to spend the money on social workers and a school psychologist than police officers.

My comment: I’m not sure that’s much of an improvement in the grand scheme of things, (you know, those little things like parents being allowed to parent their children). Police officer to maintain the authority, or psychologists evaluating children looking for signs of abuse and social workers to coerce parents into following the standard under threat of losing your children.

In some ways, the cops might be the lesser of two evils.