One of the great annoyances of this our era is the cloying-misleading verbiage. It’s a kind of barometer of the deterioration of both honesty and civilization, each being dependent on the other for its maintenance.
An example- one of many – is this business of describing the cops assigned to guard schools as “school resource officers.” The italicized words indicating what these “SROs” are – and do.”
As opposed to being a “resource” – whatever that means.
It used to mean something of physical value, such as coal. As in “coal is a natural resources.” But that was before the personnel department at work became the “human resources” department.
And cops guarding schools became the same kind of “resource.
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Getting rid of government schools would be the ultimate solution, but that will never happen.
That being said…
The first step is to abolish “gun-free school zones” which are actually criminal shooter safety zones. Those unstable individuals KNOW that the schools are weapons-free and use that to their advantage. It is long overdue to take that “advantage” away from them.
The next step…hire non-law enforcement veterans as janitors and maintenance personnel, deputize and arm them. Janitors and maintenance personnel have the run of the buildings, have access facility-wide and KNOW where the hiding spots are.
Hiring (non-law enforcement) veterans–NOT law enforcement, is the key.
Today’s “law enforcement” and “school resource officers” personnel consider their own lives and their pensions and retirement to be more important than that of the students (victims) and will almost always choose to “run the other way” or “cower and cover in fear”, while us veterans are trained to run TOWARD the sound of gunfire.
“Law enforcement” and “school resource officers” are useless in school shootings. Almost every school shooting was responded to by “law enforcement” waiting for the shooting to stop–NOT ACCEPTABLE–PERIOD!
The Uvalde Texas school shooting provides but another example of “law enforcement” worthlessness in which parents were willing to go into the school to defend their children while the police “sat on their hands”, even handcuffing a women who protested their inaction and stated that she would go in herself. After she was released, she DID go into the school and get the children out. She had more courage than all of the police officers on site.
“Law enforcement” is useless…the Uvalde police department should have been disbanded after that incident with every police officer prohibited from working in “law enforcement” ever again.
Sheesh, the only times I ever saw an armed police officer in school were 1) to talk to us about safety around traffic and around strangers and 2) on career day.
One problem is that we let seriously mentally unstable people run amok. We used to confine people like that in mental hospitals for their safety and ours.
But Democrats thought doing that violated the civil rights of the crazy, and Republicans thought that doing that was a waste of taxpayer money.
Bipartisanship at its finest…
Funny,,, Went to school in the 50s-60s. Never had the ‘problems’ they have today. Seemed to start in the mid to late 60s. Strange eh? Sort of like today’s ‘died suddenly’. They’re baffled.
“Personnel” sounded too much like “person,” so that had to go. Reduce labor to just another input, right out of the Communist manifesto. A resource to be exploited, just like land or coal, by the expert class.
Nowadays everything is a resource. And it must be used efficiently. Emotion is messy, so it has to go. No children, unless the state requires more taxpayers to cover the future spending they brought forward. But better to decant them from an incubator rather than give birth, all that messy biology cuts down productivity from the mother’s lifetime output. Brave New World was a business plan, not a dystopic fever dream.
How the hell are kindergarteners going to get arrested if there are no school resource officers?
School “Resource-Wasting” Officers is more appropriate…
Train and issue guns to teachers (to those who want them, and offer extra pay for the responsibility) and watch the discipline problems drop like rocks…not to mention any school shootings.
It’s a lots cheaper than paying cops…
Indeed, Saxons –
Also, how about no tolerance for disruptive (let alone violent) kids? Remember when a kid in high school dared not talk back to a teacher? Let alone threaten one? The formula’s pretty simple, really.
Oh no, can’t do that! Equity justice won’t allow it. Also, the school system won’t get the almighty dollar if the little bastards are booted out permanently. When we lived in rural Western WA the neighbor worked part time at the local high school, her job was to ride herd on the “in school suspension” classroom. She’d had enough after a couple months, she told me it was very obvious most of them belonged in prison & wouldn’t be long before that’s where they’d be.
Again, “in school” meant the high school got their $$$ per head as long as they were on the property for the day.
I tried, pretty hard, to get this idea going in my town at multiple school board meetings. 4 out of 5 got angry at me. So I demanded they state their ‘for or against’ the idea on the record. They yelled more and said they would not. I told them I will be back at every meeting until they did. The 3rd meeting, they brought the ‘cops’ in to literally frisk me. Such cowards. But they finally did ‘vote’ on my concept. 4 voted verbally with disgust. 1 was at least nice and was curious about the concept and wanted to learn more. She later left the board.
The town is 10ooo people.
Just another nail in coffin for this place for me.
Arming public school teachers? That’s a HELL NO from me. If any group of people deserve to be gun controlled, it’s teacher union thugs.
Good Morning, Horst!
Government – not public – schools are the core problem. A home schooled kid does not have to deal with armed government thugs – or thugs in the classroom. Parents have control over what the kid is taught. And other people aren’t in any position to interfere.
Yes. Government school teachers.
I work in a private high school, but not a teacher (maintenance guy). I would carry concealed, if they would allow it. All they really would need is about 5-10 staffers and faculty willing to carry to ensure nobody would be stupid enough to shoot up the place.
In my school if at least two of us maintenance guys, the principal, two front office people (since we would be the ones to encounter a shooter first), making any wiling teachers as extra carriers just to fill the ranks. The only folks who would know who was carrying would be the ones carrying and the local cops (since we know most of them). And the cops would know only so they don’t shoot us by “mistake”.
But that isn’t the “solution” they are looking for. We just got a coating installed on all the first floor windows to make it harder to break them (one of which made a window leak water…..ugh). And the payroll increased as we have a resource officer now. They were proud to get a “grant” to pay for it……
And BTW, we had a “school” shooting back in the 1980’s (a student with mental issues shot a teacher) so there are some there who think since we had ours already we are immune from a future one happening…… Also shows the lie that school shootings are a “new” thing too. The public high school had a copy cat shooting a few weeks later……
Yeah,,, we used to play cowboys and injuns. Shot each other multiple times with our finger guns,,, never arrested!
As a teacher for 25 years before disability struck (and I got out of the foul-corrupt system).. I was so against school-as-prison at least in my own classroom. Of course the admin HATED me because I actually respected and cared about my students! I love the way that D-Head in the pic has a disgusting face diaper!!!!
Hi EPX,
Yup. I cannot understand people who send their kids to government schools. It’s almost like sending them to reform school (back in the day).
Thanks Eric for all you do! So glad I got out of that System of Kontrol!
Thanks for the kind words, EPX!
“semi-retired officers”
as demonstrated previously, of no help when there’s actually a threat to the students.
they’ll hide behind a column outside the school to “co-ordinate” the responding officers.
then retire & collect their pension.
Disgusting isn’t it? I think that chicken shit cop that ran and hid during the Marjorie Douglas school shooting in Florida was forced to resign, but he still got a six figure pension for being a coward. Nice work if you can get it.
There isn’t much I disagree with you on, and I’ll keep that up here. I agree 100%. I graduated High School in ’83. I personally felt school felt like a prison and couldn’t wait to get out of there, but now they literally are in one.
Yes, Eric, they began increasingly treating school kids like inmates when I was in school, and it became ostentatiously apparent when they built a new high school in the town in which I grew up.
The design and aesthetics were unmistakably influenced by prisons. They stopped short of festooning the fences with razor ribbon. But they most certainly had prison (“security”) guards working from the very beginning, and the policies were that of strict inmate (student) control.
It’s only gotten worse. And when kids are treated like criminals, they have a way of acquiescing to the role.
It’s far from certain that the “Student Resource Officer” will protect your kids from a murderous gunman, but he probably will give your kids a criminal record if he has a chance. They can then also learn to play the role of second-class-citizen.
Right On BDO!
Can’t believe the picture of the diaper wearing “blue boy punk”…sporting NCO stripes and 3 ” time in grade ” stripes!
So the proud pussy has hassled little kids for 12 years?
The punk needs to hump a 50lb pack + a belt of M60 ammo and 3 “60 mike mike” mortar rounds through heavy duty forest at a…forced..march…ummm…”enhanced pace” negotiating assorted challenging terrestrial obstacles.
Semper Fi asshole.