Wed Jun 8, 2022, 10:42 PM

I did not start my public education until first grade.

I remember a little of kindergarten before getting measles, followed by mumps, capping it all off with chicken pox. At the end of all the quarantine, it was late spring of first grade.
There was a duck and cover drill, that happened once, that I can remember, amongst the many fire drills.
It was not until junior high school that I had ever seen a uniformed police officer in a school, my school. She commanded respect, and got it. (Sometimes, I can remember her name)
Most importantly, she never had a gun.
That was in my home town of Washington DC.
This was the last time that I have seen a uniformed police officer in my school.
We moved to the Maryland suburbs, where I finished school through graduation without ever seeing another uniformed police officer in my school.
I find it very disturbing to know that we have preadolescent to be a subject matter expert on how to survive an active shooter situation.
This is what we have become and allowed to happen.

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I did not start my public education until first grade. (Original post)	RickHworth	Jun 2022	OP
We had a plain clothes cop in HS.	LeftInTX	Jun 2022	#1
I find it horrifying to see a cop of any kind for any reason	slightlv	Jun 2022	#2

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Wed Jun 8, 2022, 10:50 PM

LeftInTX (21,751 posts)

1. We had a plain clothes cop in HS.

He was there for drugs. He was gone before the end of the year. The next year, we didn't have anyone

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Wed Jun 8, 2022, 11:35 PM

slightlv (1,375 posts)

2. I find it horrifying to see a cop of any kind for any reason

to be walking the halls of any type of school. I lived through the "hellacious" period of school riots in the late 60's and early 70's and we didn't have cops in the halls, even then. Bad teachers, yes. But no cops. School was a time for learning, and for some that meant learning where the boundaries were. Parents were called when the boundaries got pushed too far. Parents took care of the kids who pushed them. What happened that parents gave up that responsibility to cops? Were they informed or was it just taken for granted? I ask, because even my daughter didn't have cops... or school "resource" officers" in her schools that I knew of, anyway. And I sure as heck didn't sign any paperwork giving away any responsibility for punishment or discipline.

It's just my opinion... and that's not worth a heck of a lot, I know... but my sister who's a teacher has a school resource officer and more than a handful of kids who push the boundaries for all they're worth. These kids have stolen equipment, done arson, battery, etc., in their former schools while being more than welcomed into their new parochial school and into her classroom now. Their behavior hasn't changed; only her style of teaching has had to change, and her new found desire for her retirement date. It seems like the more cops have entered the school, the worse the kids' behavior has become. But I (and my daughter) have been out of the school system for so many years, I admit I may be seeing this with a jaundiced eye. But does anyone else see all these extraordinary measures having an inverse effect?

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