An Indiana high school is making a bold move to create a safer environment for students -- they've banned students from carrying bags including purses, during the school day. Female students are upset about the changes.Nothing like preparing kids for real life! As adults, they'll be expected to be defenseless dependents on "Only Ones," too, just like their teachers and administrators.
And they've banned backpacks too, just to make sure no one gets any ideas...
Goodness. As far as "creat[ing] a safer environment for students" goes, can their moves get any bolder?
Now chew your cud, children, so that you can grow up to be just like us.
Now all they need to do is change the dress code to MANDATE see-through clothes, not prohibit them. Or...
ReplyDelete"I love a woman in a bikini. No concealed weapons." -- The James Bond film "The Man With the Golden Gun"
All a killer has to do is call in sick that day, come fully equipped, shoot the school resource cop and the entire office staff, and have 20 minutes to do whatever until the police get there (and who knows how long before they actually enter) ...
But this WILL prevent "impulse" attacks with weapons. Except for fists, feet, hardback books, compasses, pens, pencils, headbutting...
In a nearby county, a teacher was fired for explaining the Fourth Amendment to students who had just experienced a random search of backpacks AND POCKETS by the principal. The school board and superintendent upheld her termination.
Not MY county.
great: send your kid to a concentration camp. who needs hard labor when they can be kept thinking about nothing all day?
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the drop in productivity that students will face. You now have to go back to your locker in between every class.
ReplyDeleteNothing like turning kids into sheep. In fact this is simply because the teachers/Administrators are the "Only Ones" we can trust the education of our kids with?
Get ready for the daily strip-search.
ReplyDeleteIn my junior year of high school, which was only 5 years ago, they tried to tell us that we can not have backpacks and that we had to go back to our lockers between classes or carry the books in our arms that we would need for a few classes and then go back to get them. They said it was for our safety. Some still carried backpacks on risk of expulsion, while many others chose to go to their lockers between every class and then whole slews of people were late for every class. I can not say that either one of those were accidents. The students chose to do both to see what the admins would do about it. In the end the admins saw how stupid it was and how many resources were being wasted. So they reversed the rule, thanks to students who were not afraid to "get in trouble" for ignoring such an asinine rule.
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Very good, Anthony. The Spirit of '76. Like the students who say they'll buy their own jumpsuits to lessen the stigma of being made to wear one for dress code and other violations.
ReplyDeleteThe county where I live is using license-plate scanning technology to catch property tax evaders. The county car with left- and right-looking scanners reads license plates even at speed and checks them against lists. What OTHER databases might such technology be used to cross-reference? If Dad is listed as owning a gun, Tommy may be denied the privilege of driving to school, because CAR searches are still controversial, for now. Better to be safe. (sarcasm)
Imagine future "sobriety" checkpoints. One stop does it all.
When living in a concrete jungle one must learn to become a stainless steel rat.
ReplyDeleteGnaw at the infrastructure, take out cameras with a slingshot and ball bearings, use heavy duty nail clippers to snip data wires (not standard AC, that could hurt). Every day in lots of small insignificant ways make the opressor's lives a living hell.
If any "bold" happens there it will be up to the students and parents to boldly go where prohibited. Or not show up at all.
ReplyDeleteIf the parents held their kids out of school the policy would change almost immediately. No federal attendance money, student safety "bold" program be damned.
Anybody wanna bet against it?
Massive Resistance.
ReplyDeleteSchool will never be "safe." Chemicals in the labs, knives in the cafeteria kitchen, big heavy doors to slam on someone's head. Musical instruments! Heavy metallic ones. Football helmets could be impact weapons...
Water bottles. A new trend seems to be killing or immobilizing people and burning the building down on top of them to make sure of death and destroy evidence.
If abstaining doesn't do it, monkeywrenching should. Bless our little teen-age computer geniuses.
No wonder they don't like those Paladin Press books and want them banned. That's OK, someone had to come up with those ideas in the first place. I'd find out who wants to brand all our children potential terrorists and make his life even more interesting than theirs.
It almost surprises me that any of the parents would put up with this policy. This school and the town are not really an urban demographic. The town of Cedar Lake is in that yet undefined area between suburbia and the boondocks. I spend a lot of the time at the range and in church with residents of Cedar Lake. The ones I know and shoot with are not people that would put up with this type of policy. However, most of them either homeschool or send their kids to private school.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the story is in the untold details. Cedar Lake (as well as the nearby town I live in) is located in Lake County ... one of the fastest growing counties in Indiana. Guess where all the new residents are coming from? Yep, Cook County, Illinois. These people are attracted by the "country livin" found just over the state line. Unfortunately, they are also bringing all their ideas and politics with them.