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Old 05-26-2022, 10:33 AM   #1303
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB View Post
Improving perimeter security with walls, gates, and guards obviously wouldn't be a replacement for gun legislation, but while that intractable issue remains intractable it would at least seem a better long-term initiative than having generations of kids growing up in schools with paranoid policies such as locked steel classroom doors and teachers armed with guns. That's not what schools should be.
The majority of public schools in the states don't have funding for 10 year old computers or to fix their AC - nobody's funding prison-schools.

I would also assume that the schools you're speaking of in East Asia with the tight security are for the top 1% and that the majority of students attend schools with very, very poor infrastructure.

Unequal societies. Just gate off the whole community and get it over with, not just the school. Everywhere is going to resemble South Africa and Brazil.
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