By arming teachers or the staff that helps to support schools will only increase the level of liability in schools. Kenneth S. Trump, President of National School Safety and Security Services said "School districts considering arming teachers and school staff with guns would take on significant responsibility and potential liabilities that I firmly believe are beyond the expertise, knowledge-base, experience, and professional capabilities of most school boards and administrators," it is short-sighted for those supporting the idea to believe that educators who enter a profession to teach and serve a supportive, nurturing role with children could abruptly kick into the mindset to kill someone in a second's notice. Police and military personal train their entire career for these kind of situations. They are trained and placed into situations that require them to be in the mindset that they may have to take a life. This is the opposite of the caring role of a teacher.…
There have been 74 school shootings in the United States since the Sandy Hook shooting. This number is extremely high and causes heartbreak to our country; students deserve to attend school with no fear. Security guards and rules are not enough. Targeted bookbag and locker searches should be allowed because it would lower the amount of deaths and injuries in schools, lowers the amount of drug use in schools, brings a positive look to schools, and communities. Believing that these searches or maybe even metal detectors will help with the danger in schools today. According to Kate R. Ehlenberger, “Officials conduct random or blanket searches not because of individualized suspicion, but as a preventive measure. Examples of random searches include the use of metal detectors in school entrances and…
First, backpacks benefit learning by enabling students to stay more organized. How many times have students been admonished for arrived to class ill-prepared to learn because they did not have the necessary course materials? Since backpacks have multiple pockets and compartments, students can more easily transport essential learning materials like binders, pencils, textbooks, and papers. Students can also organize their supplies by subjects and will have access to homework and assignments during class as well as at home. In addition, the zipper and Velcro fasteners prevent…
One quiet day in the 1960’s 3 Des Moines students were wrongly punished for protesting the Vietnam War by wearing black arm bands to school. The school officials believed that the armbands would cause a huge disturbance and be a very big distraction to the student body. The students were then suspended.…
Imagine this, you walk into the cafeteria to find the smell of spaghetti, gross! You get a tray anyway. That's all that they have so it`s your only option. You only push the mushy noodles around the tray then throw it away once your lunch period is over. The next period you hear your stomach growl and wish you could have had another option at lunch. If schools provided more lunch options this problem would happen less or even disappear completely.…
Guns on a school campus is an issue with two clear sides, those who support allowing concealed weapons and those who rally for gun free zones. David Burnett supports the idea of allowing students to carry concealed weapons. Burnett’s central argument is that gun free zones leave students defenseless. Darby Dickerson disagrees, saying students do not understand the responsibilities of owning a weapon and should therefore, not be allowed to carry them on campus.…
Schools should allow legally licensed concealed carry permit holders to continue carrying on and in schools. Concealed carry minimizes or eliminates school shootings, and it can decreases crime rates. People carry everywhere else so why not on campus?…
Throughout the past eight years, the number of school shootings has risen from around ten in 2010 to over 47 since 2016. Security measures are being taken throughout schools: doors must stay closed and locked, and active shooter drills are practiced to prepare students. Though some of these solutions are effective, some of them do more harm than good. President Donald Trump’s decision has been all over recent media, sparking a great controversy. While the idea appeals to some, many more believe it unwise.…
In recent years, there have been many school shootings. Students and faculty deserve the right to carry a firearm to protect themselves. There have been many occasions when the campus police were not able to protect students and faculty. The second amendment gives the right for Americans to bear arms. However, firearms should not be allowed on college campuses because people will feel unsafe, some individuals do not know how to use a gun, and officers will become confused.…
Do you know what could be in your fellow students backpack at all times, or how about your teacher’s desk drawer? According to Students For Concealed Carry (SCC) ; a national organization of U.S staff, students,…
Public schools across the United States have been dealing with the issue of dress codes. As of 2008, twenty-two U.S. states specifically authorized schools to institute dress codes or uniform policies (8). School boards may generally create and enforce dress code, but they must do so without violating students’ constitutional law (9). Schools are finding difficulty in enforcing their dress code among students. Parents feel as if the schools dress codes are condoning their students for expressing themselves and say that it is unconstitutional and wrong. Parents, students, and administrators all have the idea of uniforms in the back of their mind but, they will have to give up things to have them. Though a dress code for high schools students is appropriate, uniforms would be a better option.…
Eight states currently have laws that allow students and faculty to carry concealed weapons on campuses. In 24 other states, individual colleges can decide whether or not to allow firearms on the premises. (“Death Statistics Belie Impact of Children's Gun Injuries”) The debate involving if concealed weapons should or should not be allowed on college Universities, has been active since the early 90’s. In fact, school shootings in the United States have occurred as early as the 18th and 19th century. The first college shooting that occurred in the United States was July 26th, 1764 in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. Since 2013, there has been 142 school shootings in the United States, and since 2008 there has been 11 school shootings in the state of Illinois. (“Gun Control Overview”) Currently, Illinois prohibits the…
On April 16th, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, went on campus and proceeded to shoot and kill 33 people, injuring 32 others before he killed himself (Shapira and Jackman). According to Christine Hauser and Anahad O’Connor, staff writers for the New York Times, “the shootings at Virginia Tech came in the same week, eight years prior, as the shootings at Columbine on April 20th, 1999.” In more recent years, mass shootings at school campuses have occurred more frequently. Such occurrences have ignited yet another round of the gun control debate, focusing largely on whether or not teachers should be allowed to conceal carry on campus. With strict gun bans…
Yes, the school has the right to regulate my freedom. School is a place to get an education, and prepare students for their future careers. If students are distracted by things like profanity, weapons, and other freedoms in school, they won’t be focused on their education. A majority of students would argue that the school doesn’t have the right to take away our freedom, but they don’t realize how dangerous school would be.…
students do about this? Packing a lunch could solve some problems but this is a…
