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In reply to the discussion: I don't get all the resistance to putting a cop in schools [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)I'm thinking of my high school right now: One cop couldn't possibly protect that space effectively because it takes five minutes to run from one end to the other, and there are nearly infinite ways in and out. It's a school, not a castle, it's not designed to be a defensible space.
I don't know how we'd have banned coats on campus either (Is this my senior year of high school again? Dr. Douglas, is that you?) because like most schools out here on the left coast we had a spread out campus with detached buildings separated by grassy areas and open air walkways.
The only school I know of out here that's one gigantic enclosed building is 100 years old, give or take. It's also miserably hot for a reasonable fraction of the year, which is why nobody builds like that out here any more. The notion that one person can monitor a single entrance and buzz people in and out might make sense in snowy areas where schools are designed as enclosed heated spaces, but in much of the country that's not how schools are constructed and the notion is just ridiculous.