Fontana, Calif., schools get high-powered rifles

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35. 17 acre campus! Buildings all over the place.

The logistics of responding to any attack would be a nightmare for even hardened and trained veterans, let alone the on-campus resource officers -- yes, they were armed -- who were always very professional and helpful to both staff and students alike.

The administration was more than a bit clueless about how to both handle the enormity of the task of meeting up to the educational responsibilities and simultaneously, keeping things from spiraling out of control. The school board was out of their element entirely. I would speak out at board meetings regularly, always respectfully, but nevertheless with some passion. Some of it did some good, others, not so much. I did help make an important and large policy change concerning when students would repeat a class they were failing. This, over the objections of my department head (who was useless and never listened to her teachers). She later became an assistant principal at another high school where she could inflict her bad policies on a whole school faculty.

So, I am not surprised that Fontana would do this.