Security
February 2005
As of February 2005, Lakeside High School had felt the
loss of two students to suicide in two months.
One suicide took place on school property, the other at a private
residence; both were male students; both were athletes; both were tragic in the
loss of a young life.
In an article published in the Spokesman Review on January 28, 2005, is stated:
“Coming in May, the district will ask the community to
support a capital bond that includes remodeling the schools to improve
security.” (“Nine Mile district addresses security issues”)
In 2004, the school district tried twice to pass a capital
bond. Both times that bond failed.
Quite obviously, the district now has a more palatable
issue upon which hopefully to capitalize in asking the voters to pass the
capital bond this time around — the money will help improve security at the
schools.
Some will remember the article written and published in the September 10,
1999 “district insert” to the Lake
Spokane News Forum in which the district outlines all the security
measures put in place to “keep children safe” including fences, security
cameras, locked gates, alarm systems and outside lights.
Making the buildings “more secure” isn’t going to stop the
violence that has escalated since the inception of Goals 2000 bringing systems
education to schools nationwide. Nor
will facilitated meetings with pre-determined outcomes, school “resource”
officers (otherwise known as cops patrolling the hallways), a multitude of
school counselors and school psychologists, or any other humanistic application
associated with and the result of systems education.
Throwing more money at the government schools is not and
will never be the answer to a problem that centers on ideology.
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