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The key is that 430th officer.
Exactly what part of the problem was lack of security, vs lack of attention to reported issues? >

There are less consequences at the top >

This is my son’s school/class. Thankfully in this case the principal, vice principal, super intendant are all gone.
I also agree that it all means nothing if you don’t have the admin to back teachers up. >

Oh Jesus what you have gone through!! My sympathies to you and your community. >

Thanks. Between Covid and this my son has not caught a break in any year he was in school. Here is hoping his complaints can become homework and not worrying about if his teacher or one of his friends are going to die (or almost die). >

Absolutely ridiculous that that's a hope and not an expectation. No kid should ever equate school with mortal terror. I thought the school shooter drills for random strangers were messed up as a kid. I can't stand what it's become today. >

Did they really need to add security? Or just have the existing administrators actually do their job? >

Same thing happened in a school district about an hour away from me. Lots of physical altercations, lots of assaults on teachers. It was not a gun problem, it was a physical violence problem. This district was often in the news because of fighting amongst students or assaults on teachers. Apparently, the language for the criteria needed to have a student face suspension or expulsion for assaulting a teacher was "injury" instead of just "contact". Meaning, a student could shove his pregnant teacher, but as long as she was uninjured the student would not be suspended. They'd be right back in class the very next day. So of course, the teachers realize that it's really only a matter of time with these ticking time bomb kids. It's only a matter of time before they wind up getting seriously hurt. So, they started gearing up for a strike for safer work conditions. The district's solution? "Well, how about we install metal detectors to check for guns?" The teachers were like, "Are you even listening? It's not a gun problem. It's a physical violence problem and a problem with the students not being removed from the school for it." Luckily (for lack of a better word) the shooting in Virginia happened at just the right time for these teachers. It was right as they were preparing to strike. The district realized how screwed they'd be if something ever happened to a teacher despite a long paper trail of previous complaints about the student. Teacher complains 10 times about being shoved, nothing is ever done about it, then one day the teacher is shoved, loses their balance, falls backwards, smacks their head on a desk and suffers brain damage. Well shit. Anyway, the strike was averted and, though I don't know the exact details, it sounds like the teachers got what they wanted. I don't think that would have happened without the Virginia shooting. I think the district would have gone with more security (installing metal detectors for guns when guns weren't even the problem) instead of doing their jobs and suspending these dangerous kids. >

Added Security Theatre, more likely. >

Unfortunately, most likely due to a lack of funding. The fact that there isn’t access control and metal detectors in schools at this point is an indictment on the incompetence of federal, state and local governments. >

You're absolutely right, schools should be more like prisons so a bunch of hicks can go pew-pew with their dick extenders. >

Schools are nothing like prison and this sort of reductionist comparison is harmful to both institutions. >

Fuck off with that. We've got a a political party pushing for single entrances and armed guards. We've already got metal detectors and cops to ensure poor kids find their way to prison. Kids need passes to transit through the building when the school isn't outright requiring escorts in the hallway. Schools constantly go into lockdown for hours at a time, where stude ts are not allowed to leave classrooms for any reason. >

All of this is to keep them safe and to keep the school districts safe from potential lawsuits for not keeping their children safe. Not sure what you want. Kids go home at the end of every day after a period of socialization and education (which is necessary for their development), something which prisoners are not able to do. >

The main punishment and psyche affecting part of prison is the loss of freedom.
Taking the feeling of freedom away from school environments for 6.5 hours a day will have extremely detrimental effects on all children. The other part is the feeling of security which is a base maslow hierarchy need with food and shelter.
The solution isn't to lead every kid in America into 'safety cells', it's to work on causes of the violence and regulations around the access and firearms causing these events.
This exact event could happen in any other country with tight gun regulations.
Also in this incident the bag was searched and gun wasn't found. Bags don't go through the metal detector, they get searched separately. >

The same school that was aware of the gun and did exactly nothing about it. >

And the chances of another kindergartener shooting a teacher at that same school is practically zero. But hey, they are doing something! (Not really) >

They need new admin more than anything else. >

Uvalde schools had their own dedicated Police Department.
Seems like we’re not learning much in this country, especially in our schools.