Arkansas district arms teachers

Arkansas

The superintendent of the Clarksville School System has provided over fifty hours of law enforcement training for twenty teachers and staff, and a voucher for them to purchase a firearm to carry in school.

The merits of this approach to school safety can be, and rightfully should be, fully discussed before implementation.

Part of this discussion should be about the ins and outs of carrying a weapon.  Enter Staying Alive: How to act fast and survive deadly encounters.  There is a full chapter on Is it logical for you to carry?  The various concerns for carrying a weapon are covered, as are various non-armed ways to protect yourself.

In its most basic form, safety begins with the individual.  If the individual is not safe, then the group cannot be safe.  Thus, learning to protect yourself is the building block for keeping your home, your workplace, or your school safe.

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For Bath, Memory of 1927 School Bombing that Killed 44 Never Goes Away

Bath, MI
Andrew Kehoe spent months in planning, buying dynamite and testing detonation devices. He hid hundreds of pounds of dynamite under the school, wired to an alarm clock.

On May 18, 1927, the last day of school before summer vacation, the bomb went off, destroying a wing of the school.  The explosion could be heard for miles. People milled around, finding survivors and bodies in the debris and broken glass.

Kehoe returned in his truck and asked for the superintendent.  When the superintendent approached Kehoe's truck, the second bomb detonated, killing Kehoe and the superintendent.

Thirty-seven children and seven adults died, and 58 were injured. It was the worst school disaster in U.S. history.

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School Violence Rumors Prompt Response from West Plains School District

West Plains, KY
A threat of violence in a West Plains school has prompted the superintendent to send a letter to parents.

The rumors concern events that might occur on December 21.  The attack at Sandy Hook Elementary, as well as social media has spurred these rumors.

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Some Thoughts on the Election

The election can be boiled down to an incident that occurred yesterday.

I took my 13-year old daughter with me to the polls.  I figured I would teacher her about the electoral process, something my wife and I have done since she was born.

She watched me check in, showing my ID, and i was given my ballot, and we walked over to a voting booth.  There I showed her the ballot, explained straight ticket and split-ticket voting, and gave her my views on how to select candidates. I told her that, even when voting straight ticket, to look at all the candidates to know for whom you are voting. She didn't say anything, and I thought maybe I had lost her, as will happen with teens at times.

She came with me to the voting machine, and she watched me put the ballot in. All of a sudden, my daughter says, "'Murica!"

Startled, I looked at her. She grinned at me and I grinned back, knowing now that she had been listening, and that my lesson had been taken in.

School safety is a lot like voting.  The duty to vote is not related to whether your candidate wins or loses. Consent of the governed means that we accept the system, and because we do, we accept the outcomes of the system.

Being a School Safety Officer is not related to whether you agree with what your Superintendent or School Board says.  In the Army it was called Saluting Time.  You have input up to a point, and then it's time to salute, and drive on.  Our job is to stand on the Wall between chaos and order.  When we take a job, we consent to all the vagaries of the job, the good and the bad.

As we left the polling place, I told my daughter to look around. No gunfire, no intimidation, no threats. A peaceful transition of power in the Greatest Nation on Earth. Win or lose for your candidate, this is still 'Murica. Land of the Free, BECAUSE of the Brave.

My daughter got it and, in doing so, she taught her daddy a lesson.

Learn it, live it, and continue to stand on that Wall.

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Deer Park Schools on High Alert after Man Allegedly Follows Girls to School

Deer Park, OH
Two elementary school girls in Sycamore Township were allegedly followed and then chased by a man while on their way to school Tuesday morning.

"They started out briskly walking trying to get away from the man once they crossed the street, then this person followed them across the street they picked up the pace a little," said Jeff Langdon, superintendent for Deer Park schools. "That person picked up the pace, they then began running and ran to school."

Deer Park police tell 9 News that the man started following the girls north on Blue Ash Road just north of Kugler Mill Road as they walked to Amity Elementary School.

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