An Ohio School District Is Arming Its School Custodians With Handguns

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17. NOT true. Every security person knows that entry points are exactly the control points for school

crime and invasions. All doors in Chicago high schools have both walk-through security pillars and scanning machines. Students wear seeable, mandatory ID's at all times. Once the population inside is 'clean' and secure, preventing criminal invasion at entry points is relatively easy.

There have been NO shootings in Chicago schools for over six years, while there HAVE been shootings in areas nearby. That's more an indicator of the neighborhood than of the schools in them. Schools in Chicago, as elsewhere, are the safest places for children to be all day in this country when the adults show some adult practical knowledge of security methods. That's what principal training is for.

It's what the public already pays for. The failure on school districts' part to spend properly on best security practices doesn't make it incumbent upon the public to spend more money toward "patches' than it already spends. States and districts must show some brains and steward already-existing security budgeting. Otherwise this just smacks of cheap political protection racket leadership.