In Wake of Newtown Shooting, School Safety Procedures Are Under Review Nationwide: Do Teachers Need More Emergency Training?
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2012/12/16 19:01:43
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Following the Newtown, Connecticut massacre, schools may have to adopt the motto "expect the unexpected," when it comes to emergency situations. No one could have ever expected a young adult male to open fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 26 people in total--let alone 20 children. Now a community and an entire country is seeking answers.
There were teachers who were able to hide their students and save lives in the process. Others, like the Sandy Hook principal, did their best to stop now-deceased gunman Adam Lanza, 20, but she lost her life in the process. The Sandy Hook staff members, the ones who lived and the ones who were tragically killed, seem to have done what they could to protect students themselves.
The Newtown tragedy does put current American schools' safety procedures into question, as to whether they should be revised and innovated. Everyone begs that something like the Newtown tragedy or remotely like it never occurs again, but recent history says schools and teachers specifically, should expect the unexpected. Whether it means taking more action during school lockdowns or some other type of rule change/suggestions, safety of students and faculty will now be judged in a different light through the country.
There were teachers who were able to hide their students and save lives in the process. Others, like the Sandy Hook principal, did their best to stop now-deceased gunman Adam Lanza, 20, but she lost her life in the process. The Sandy Hook staff members, the ones who lived and the ones who were tragically killed, seem to have done what they could to protect students themselves.
The Newtown tragedy does put current American schools' safety procedures into question, as to whether they should be revised and innovated. Everyone begs that something like the Newtown tragedy or remotely like it never occurs again, but recent history says schools and teachers specifically, should expect the unexpected. Whether it means taking more action during school lockdowns or some other type of rule change/suggestions, safety of students and faculty will now be judged in a different light through the country.
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Drummerboy 2012/12/16 19:43:40
We don't expect police officers, security guards and soldiers to be ready to teach math.
So yes we need to have our teachers involved with more training in situations such as this and hopefully be able to do more and prevent loss of lives. In the end of all this money still is the problem until we as a country do something about it.
We will never have the answer truly as he is dead by his own hand. We can only speculate what was on his mind at the time. Truth is even if we have all that you said in every school people forget it cost money and our government has been very stingy about spending more on education.
Raising taxes does not guarantee the money will go directly to that as school administrations have a tendency to take from that for other uses. In CA Reagan cut the budget for mental aid and a bunch of them were released here.
The same has been done across the country so think if we had been able to keep the programs on this we might not have the killings.
And in the case of the Arizona Shooting, the manner in which the massacre took place, might have actually yielded higher body counts if he had chosen to use a knife instead. Guns are unwieldy at point-blank range, and he was ultimately detained on reload. As it is, inside the crowd he got detained rather quickly, had the shots been fired from outside the crowd, some members of the crowd who were armed would have had a clear shot to take him down.
As for the rest of your post TO ME~~ I don't see where I said all that you replied to ME~~reading comprehension~~ It's a beautiful thing LOL~
(German assault rifle.or Storm rifle)
Here is a picture of my first grade teacher. He kept us safe.
where the majority of students didnt have to much. The teachers knew it and abused talked down to and demeened us and sometimes threw books at us because they knew "some" of us had parents who wouldnt care enough to put a stop to it
. I remember one of my teachers hit a girl in the face with a textbook so she got up slapped him in the face and they began fighting in the class. The person who committed that shooting was a "PERSON" teachers are "PEOPLE" Teachers have done horrible unimaginable things to there students and some think they should have guns?
I think its a matter of school security ill never forget back when i was 10 years old i walked to and from school i didn't take the bus. So one day it was lunch time I realized i left my project at home got up walked passed numerous school security guards teachers and the principle walked out the front door walked all the way home got my project and walked back without being asked so much as a single question 1 time nobody even knew i had ever left. Thats part of the reason things like this happen Big burly convicts have very heavy protection in prison but innocent little schoolkids who cant fend for themselves have......? Maybe one ...
where the majority of students didnt have to much. The teachers knew it and abused talked down to and demeened us and sometimes threw books at us because they knew "some" of us had parents who wouldnt care enough to put a stop to it
. I remember one of my teachers hit a girl in the face with a textbook so she got up slapped him in the face and they began fighting in the class. The person who committed that shooting was a "PERSON" teachers are "PEOPLE" Teachers have done horrible unimaginable things to there students and some think they should have guns?
I think its a matter of school security ill never forget back when i was 10 years old i walked to and from school i didn't take the bus. So one day it was lunch time I realized i left my project at home got up walked passed numerous school security guards teachers and the principle walked out the front door walked all the way home got my project and walked back without being asked so much as a single question 1 time nobody even knew i had ever left. Thats part of the reason things like this happen Big burly convicts have very heavy protection in prison but innocent little schoolkids who cant fend for themselves have......? Maybe one fat lazy school security guard who doesn't even really watch the kids. 9/11 made us tighten airport security school security should be next.
I have heard of many police officers sitting in a parking lot all day doing nothing but getting paid while being on "patrol" Well im not blaming the officer that's what he was instructed to do but wouldn't a better use be to have some officers in the school 1-2 to make sure the kids are ok for the day? that would be one thing that could help i know when i was a kid i always felt safe when the police were around and they always let me pet there horses when they were riding them lol.
Johnny, stop talking or I will use this gun to kill you.
Johnny, sit up or I will use this gun to kill you.
Johnny, go to your seat or I will use this gun to kill you.
Johnny, come in now or I will use this gun to kill you.
The list goes on and on.
Additionally separation of powers is one of the primary tenets of the Federalist ideology, which is cornerstone to the foundations of our democracy. The theory behind separation of powers is simple, put different powers in the hands of different people, and that minimizes conflicts of interests. Simply put, a teacher's responsibilities are not the same as a principals, are not the same as a security guards. Applied in a broader sense we get the division of our government into three branches, and it even is at play in our houses of Congress having multiple committees, and the executive branch being administered with separate agencies, The Department of Education being one such agency.
So when I say that every teacher in this country is a federal bureaucrat, that isn't a paranoid, fear driven statement. It's a plain statement of fact, motivated simply by pragmatic observation, not charged...
Additionally separation of powers is one of the primary tenets of the Federalist ideology, which is cornerstone to the foundations of our democracy. The theory behind separation of powers is simple, put different powers in the hands of different people, and that minimizes conflicts of interests. Simply put, a teacher's responsibilities are not the same as a principals, are not the same as a security guards. Applied in a broader sense we get the division of our government into three branches, and it even is at play in our houses of Congress having multiple committees, and the executive branch being administered with separate agencies, The Department of Education being one such agency.
So when I say that every teacher in this country is a federal bureaucrat, that isn't a paranoid, fear driven statement. It's a plain statement of fact, motivated simply by pragmatic observation, not charged with any real emotion at all. I used to get a rather ironic laugh out of it, but really there's no irony to it either. It's a direct and logical result of applied Federalism, that every public school is a government facility, every public educator is a federal bureaucrat, hell every student is come to think of it. It's not paranoia, or the result of any conspiracy. It just is what it is.
Maybe you're just pojecting YOUR ANXIETY on the implications of it. Or maybe you just need to dispel this mystique people seem to have about the government.
There is a distinct difference between authoritative coercion (being in charge and obeyed) and coercive threats that a student feels because a teacher, with qualifications, carries or has access to a weapon. This weapon should not be on display, i.e. visibly on a belt or strapped to a leg. Students may or may not know about its presence (preferably not) but should and would not feel intimidated by it.
You don't have to get all Jeffersonian on me and reissue the "Federalist Papers" and explain the separation of powers. We don't have to compartmentalize this issue that much. In the absence of one or more armed, plain clothes security guards, some teachers, who could assume such responsibility, be able to carry or have available a weapon. It's not something I would wish for, but economics and feasibility kick in.
I'm under no illusion about "the government". But, power resides with the people and sometimes the people have to take meaningful action.
Law providing gun purchase restrictions, background checks, mandatory waiting periods —-
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Law providing “Gun-Free Zones” — No weapons allowed on the premises
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Law designating homocide as intentional killing of another human being justifying capital punishment
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Law keeping teachers, administrators, school officials from arming themselves
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1994 Assault weapons BAN [if it were right now still in place]
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41 other various laws and useless garbage legislation
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Im done with liberal madness