After Labor Day, student throughout the country, both college and primary school, will return to their respective classrooms. While the students learn the basics that will help them in the future, no doubt, those who watch the news every night may worry about what to do should a violent situation arise. Schools everywhere always prepare students in the event of earthquakes, but do they ever discuss what to do in a potentially disastrous man made situation? What situation might that be, you ask? That unfortunate situation would be an armed intruder who barged into the institution to do harm to the students, staff, administrators, or all of the above.
Armed, to protect the students
How many educational institutions are you aware of that insure the safety of their students by employing armed security in order to safeguard the well being of the student body, faculty, adminstrators and any random guests who may have been victims of wrong place, wrong time, had their been no one protecting them? While there may very well be faculty and administrators that have thought about these disturbing scenarios, and did what they could do in their power to minimize potential casualties, there are more educational institutions that do absolutely nothing at all, which is akin to burying their head in the sand. While legislators write laws that supposedly protect the general public, more specific legislation that would directly affect more people in a collective place against danger has yet to be passed. Good to know that our legislators have the public’s best interest at the heart of their service.
