Useless. It is heartless to say but ID badges and cameras and all this other expensive crapola would not have stopped Columbine or any of the other student-initiated massacres.

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According to the following website: http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.e...
"How often can a school expect a student-perpetrated homicide?
Media attention to sensational cases has generated the perception that there is a high risk of a student coming to school and killing someone. This perception of high risk has led to extreme zero tolerance policies and profiling of some students as potential killers. However, a review of the National School Safety Center’s report (http://www.schoolsafety.us/School-Associ...) identified 93 incidents when a student came onto school property and killed one or more persons over the worst ten-year period, 1992-3 to 2001-02. This means an average of about 9.3 cases per year or about once a month during the school year. Although we should strive to prevent all such cases, in a nation of 119,000 schools, a rate of 9.3 cases per year means that the average school can expect such an event about once every 12,800 years (119,000 divided by 9.3). This calculation is not intended to be a precise measure of risk, but an indication that there is a huge gap between the general perception of risk and the actual rate for the average school."

Absolutely no need for a conceal and carry law for teachers. More handguns in schools means only more deaths from handguns in schools.

These days I wouldn't be a teacher unless teachers could be issued concealed carry permits and pack a gun in school. If a teacher has suspicions about what's in a book bag I'd suggest they page the Vice Principal and let him or her search it. Your WEAC membership card isn't going to stop a 9mm round from what little Johnny Goth snuck into school.

I say yes to screening the kids as they pass thru one set of open doors at the school in the morning and I think on a rotateing basis the teachers should be the ones doing the screening to get to know the faces of the kids attending these schools, I know they will not be able to remember all of them but the kids dont know which ones they will remember and it will help in identifying trouble kids or maybe someone that dont belong. Keep a year book by the door and if you dont reconize someone get there name and look them up and of corse check ther student I.D if no I.D then escort them to the office for identy check. In know time everyone knows everyone

I wasn't saying it is a bad thing, just wondering what it would be like to have that kind of security.

thinkaboutit, cardtrader, and lucy57- When scenarios happen at schools like lucy57 described, it usually occurs where students from inside the school open fire. What Verona plans on doing will not prevent a scenario like that. It really doesn't have much to do about keeping Columbine like occurances from happening. It is more about keeping teenagers out of the school that may be likely to deliver drugs or start fights with students from that school. At any school with more than 1000 students it is hard to identify who is a student and who is not. Heck, I know of situations when teachers out on hallway supervision duties tried to escort teachers who looked like students to the office when they did not believe they were teachers trying to enter faculty lounges (usually occurs at the beginning of every school year). Teachers only come in contact with about 120 students per year in their classrooms. It is impossible for school staff to know every possible students that attends a given school and also then to determine who belongs and who does not.

So in other words, you guys would rather have someone stroll unchallenged into the schools and open fire with a gun, killing who knows how many. And THEN you could start screaming that they should have done something BEFORE anything happened? Unfortunately we no longer live in an age where something like that would be unheard of. I don't really like all the added security (and not just in the schools), but I would rather have an extra layer of protection around our children than I would want to figure out how something like that could have happened in our schools.

How about we tattoo our kids on the wrist with a bar code and have them put there hand under a scanner to gain entry. This is America for Gods Sake Home of the Brave

Interesting.
I wonder if it will make everyone at the schools feel safer or if it will feel like they are prisoners?