Box cutter used to kill teacher

[MADem]

103. Phew! I thought I was having lapses of some sort!!!

I have relatives who (still, currently) work in a suburban school system not unlike Danvers, same demographics, about the same sized town, in MA--there are no guards, there's just a cop who comes by when the kids arrive and leave, to direct traffic and make sure no perverts slip in the door, and the video system is pretty much on autopilot. The principal and assistants and the office staff have access to it, but it just rolls along, pretty much. The janitors are pretty vigilant, and they will say something if there's something amiss. If anyone wants to come into the school, they have to get buzzed in by someone at the front office. I've been in the school(s) fairly recently and seen this--this isn't third-hand information.

I had another relation who retired a few years back, who used to work in what people would call the "inner city," and the situation there was different--there were school guards, that patrolled, and that watched monitors. But the dynamic in that school was much, MUCH different--there were creeps right outside trying to sell drugs to the kids, there was a gang element about, some kids carried weapons for protection, it wasn't a "Mom in SUV dropping kids off" type place, the kids either walked or took a public bus or the T--it just was a different vibe. You couldn't get in the school YARD without being challenged by a guard, but like I said, different vibe.