It\’s reaching the point where I wouldn\’t want to have a kid in school these days.
Oh, wait…
Shit.
Backing up the thought process…all the schools I attended past middle school had metal detectors, and after 1995, all had armed guards. I do realize that the whole country isn\’t set up like this, but here\’s a note to self: research evidence of incidence of school violence with guns on campus in schools with security systems vs schools without. Do the schools making the headlines have security systems? Are schools without security systems targeted for violence by non-students? Does security ever manage to stop, delay, or lessen violence? Is the violence being perpetrated mostly by a certain demographic? Have in-school shootings dropped in inner-city schools that have instituted in-school security in the past twenty years (my experience says yes, and that it\’s moved outside the building and into the campus and community)? I know that school shootings have had an effect on security, in that students are being taught evacuation standards in case of a \’situation\’, but have the increased the rate of guards, metal detectors, whatever? Not that those necessarily help, as there are still plenty of cases where kids have bypassed security.
