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In 1999, the middle school I attended required meshed or see-through bookbags. May be more schools should put in policies like these while we wait on our politi
by zaidf 9y ago
In 1999, the middle school I attended required meshed or see-through bookbags. May be more schools should put in policies like these while we wait on our politicians to do something.
- jeanmichelx 9y agoYes and see-through clothes would also improve security
- wtvanhest 9y agoThat really doesnt make sense. I cannot imagine a single situation a clear backpack could stop or even reduce.
- cooper12 9y agoThat sounds useless [0] considering you could just cut out a hole in a textbook or hide a gun anywhere else. A lot of schools have metal detectors these days as well as random bag checks. Seems like that's the future we're choosing. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
- jandrese 9y agoOr, you know, the shooter doesn't decide to spend the day at school before they start shooting. They just walk in the front door with guns blazing. Clear backpacks are more for spotting drugs I think, and even then it's pretty useless. Dealers in schools aren't carrying around kilos of coke, they're carrying easily concealable dime bags and the like.
- sjg007 9y agoThese mass shootings are mostly in rich white suburbs.. The shooters are largely white males. Good luck getting metal detectors in these communities. Even if you turn schools into a prison you will have large groups of kids lined up to get to class in morning, at sporting events, activities and the other functions. So a motivated shooter will get to people anyway. So even though high school can feel like it is a literal prison, actually making it so solves very little. The only reasonable and logical action to take is gun control. You can't ask teachers to make threat assessments, determine mental state or act be law enforcement. Teachers are there to teach.
- lifeformed 9y agoHow does that solve anything? The shooter just comes in and starts shooting... he doesn't wait around to get checked first.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoLet's just skip straight to requiring all students to be naked and start the school day with cavity checks. /s I will never understand why people think starting from an assumption of guilt and treating all of the potential victims as guilty parties is some kind of improvement. This does not foster a more civilized environment. It has the opposite effect. It just escalates the atmosphere of terror.
- Balgair 9y agoYou laugh, but...: https://www.courthousenews.com/dehumanizing-body-cavity-search-at-school/ https://www.courthousenews.com/dehumanizing-body-cavity-sear...
- DoreenMichele 9y agoNo, not funny at all. Thank you for posting it. Under some jurisdictions, this would qualify as sexual assault and it's horrible.
- CompanionCuuube 9y ago>I will never understand why people think starting from an assumption of guilt and treating all of the potential victims as guilty parties is some kind of improvement. Why? That is what widespread civilian disarmament does. There are many countries which use it to create a more civilized environment, like Russia and China.
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- cdoxsey 9y agoMy high school banned backpacks entirely. Everyone had to carry all their books. It was incredibly stupid, but maybe its a more honest depiction of high school. Basically prison.