In Kansas City we already have a lot of police officers in the schools

[leftyladyfrommo]

Mostly middle school and high school.

They are there to keep the kids from hurting each other. Lots of bad stuff going on the schools.

I feel sorry for the poor kids that just want to go to school and get an education.

The Catholic schools don't have police but they are very strict about who gets in. The front doors are locked and everybody has to sign in and wear a tag.

[RKP5637]

1. This is sooo sad. What a commentary on a supposedly civilized society. n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Yes. It is.

But that is the reality here. So many kids belong to gangs.

Teachers need to have prtection.

But this isn't any different than it was in Los Angeles about 1970. My mother taught in an elementary school in the Watts. It was very violent then. The grade school had iron fences and gates. That way if there was big trouble in the nearby highschools they could swing the gates shut and keep the invaders out. Poor little kids were scared to death.

I went to grade school and middle school in Spokane, Wa. We just didn't have trouble with violence in the schools there. Of course, Spokane also had no race problems or religion problems. Everybody was the same. I went to school with a couple of American Indian kids - that was the extent of our diversity.

We did have some problems with greasers. But they just fought with each other and left eveyone else alone.

[RKP5637]

4. At this stage to me it's the best solution. I don't like the idea of armed teachers. I would far

rather have police officers and some good entry/exit security systems. I was very very fortunate to have lived and gone to school when about the worst was being caught smoking in the boy's room. Some had brass knuckles, and some had some little switch blades, but really, they pretty much kept to themselves and sometimes showed the gentle ones like me what they had, no threat or anything, but rather isn't this neat.