It's long past time to guard our kids with as least as much effort as we use to guard a jewelry store or bank. After, all the contents of a bank or store are covered by insurance. Our kids' lives are not.
The Detroit Free Press: Anchor Bay schools to hire 5 armed security guards
The Anchor Bay School District Board of Education voted 6-1 Wednesday evening to hire multiple armed security guards for the upcoming school year in a quarter-million dollar contract.
Certainly a good step to deter potential whackos trying to rack up a score. Publicizing it makes it even more of a deterrent. Not a guarrantee, but better than doing nothing by far.
But, it is clear the school district has a lot more to be done to ensure at least a basic level of security:
In November, Anchor Bay residents will vote on whether to approve a $168 million bond issue that includes security measures such as a video surveillance system, replacing entrance intercoms, and installing emergency alert systems.
Long past time to have had all of that done as well.
Of course Doofuses in the comments at the Freep are already going on about how the money would be better spent on education, or its a bad thing to have security. I wonder if they would also be against fire extinguishers and fire alarms in schools as well - after all school fires are a very rare occurrence and fires should be left for only professionals to handle, right?
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