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by Forty Two » Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:23 pm
I really am saddened by the talk of arming teachers. Come on, now....
It's bad enough we've gotten to the point where schools are becoming like prisons.
Back in the late 70s, early 80s, the campus was open, you could walk up to the local public school anytime. We had pick-up football and soccer games on the school grounds and it was no big deal. Kids with driver licenses would drive themselves to school, and you could come and go as you please. Until about 1983 there was a smoking lounge for students (the smoking age was 16 back then). You just walked in the front door, and went where you pleased. There was no gate, no fence, no glass security doors/windows.
It's sad. I'm not sure if things were safer back then, though. Crime rates were higher overall. I suppose there were not the school shootings and stuff back then. That's probably the difference.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but....get off my lawn!
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar