Parkland FL Stoneman Douglas High School implements security measures

[PeterD]

Students see a bit of a backfire from their school shooting protests, not the outcome they were promised by those encouraging them to speak out.

1. Students must wear ID badges at all times.
2. Students must use clear see-through backpacks that show the contents to all at all times. All other backpacks are now banned.

Some students have said they’re not happy with the changes.
Tyra Hemans, 19, a senior, told CNN she supports parts of the new policy, such as the ID requirement. But she believes other security measures, such as forcing students to carry clear backpacks, don’t adequately address the real problem with school safety, which she says is lax gun laws.
“I’m not happy with it. Why are you punishing me for one person’s actions?” she said.

[98Z]

But she believes other security measures, such as forcing students to carry clear backpacks, don’t adequately address the real problem with school safety, which she says is lax gun laws.
“I’m not happy with it. Why are you punishing me for one person’s actions?” she said.

There's no doubt that she didn't understand the irony of her own statement...

[StoneHendge]

David Hogg is very upset about this. He thinks it somehow violates students 1st Amendment rights. I'd make fun of him for not having a clue about the Constitution but what's the point? As he would put it, I'm just an "old ass."

[Keef]

If you get rid of the 2nd I think the 1st and others will be taken away next. The old saying you don't know what you got till it's gone...maybe they're too young to have heard it before.

[PeterD]

This is what students today want to make America become. They've been raised with socialist ideas that the government needs to provide everything to them and the government is this magical entity with unlimited money.

https://youtu.be/TJMRrHhttME

And for those interested this is what he doesn't learn in school
https://youtu.be/S1gUR8wM5vA

[stanc]

There's no doubt that she didn't understand the irony of her own statement...

Indeed. What is doubly ironic is that it's highly unlikely the "see-through backpack" rule would've prevented the Parkland shooting.

[LR1955]

Guys:

I went to a pretty large high school in the early 1970's. It had over 5K students at the time.

The school was pretty large but it had a chain link fence around its property with only a couple of gates.

We had an ID card that we had to show at the door in order to get into the school. And, the security guy at the door would stop anyone carrying something out of the ordinary and the item would be searched.

And there were only a couple of doors that were used for entry after school had begun. And these were supervised by the school staff.

This was well before any notion that someone would go into a school and start killing people.

After as many killings in schools as we have had over the last ten years, why any school was allowing totally unrestricted entry is nothing more than total negligence.

LR1955