From the Trib tonight. (link)"APS Police Lt. Dave Guzman said this was the fourth weapon confiscated on school property since classes began in August."
How many guns are left?
With the arrest of the fourth student at school with a loaded gun, have we got them all? Have we got half?
If we have even a tenth, there are 36 loaded guns left. They are distributed more or less evenly through out schools in the APS. There is no high school that does not have one.
And that is unacceptable.
The leadership of the APS has offered no leadership in the battle to regain and retain control over high school campuses.
The have do not even have a plan. The leadership of the APS can provide no written Discipline Philosophy Statement. They have simply surrendered the authority of adults over children at school. And then abdicated their responsibility to enforce the district's discipline policies, to teachers and site staff who have neither the power nor resources to make even a dent in the problem.
The problems with test scores and drop out rates will not be solved except by first restoring order to the teaching and learning environment.
The problem cannot be solved without admitting to the problem. It cannot hidden, and solved.
They have no plan,
because they have no intention,
because they haven't the will,
to restore the authority of adults over children.
The haven't a plan, and they haven't a clue.
They cannot be required to explain, defend,
or even acknowledge they have no district wide plan
to deal with chronically disruptive students
on regular school campuses.
Certainly not by me.
And just as certainly; apparently
not by our friends in the media.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"I think they were all loaded," Guzman said of the guns.
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I had suggested awhile ago that the junior and high schools become closed campus with monitored checkpoints and metal detectors or wands to be utilized on everyone entering the campus. I expressed that the days of an "open campus" are over, and we're inviting tragedy maintaining it.
The only responses we're "the schools won't be beuatiful anymore!" and "You want to make the schools like a prison?!".
How can all levels of APS be so ignorant? How many will have to die before they "de-beutify" their campuses with safe walls and metal detectors?
Not to mention that this would also be a check point with drug-sniffing dogs and would keep the strangers and pushers out!
I think closing campuses and metal detectors would be a great idea. I'd feel better about sending my kids off to school. I'm seriously considering homeschool!
Heck ... who knows ... maybe kids will stop dropping out because they will actually feel it's safe to go to school.
APS ought to take a survey of families ... kids and parents.
He "Thinks" the guns were loaded? What kind of cop can't tell if confiscated guns were loaded or not ?!?!
Lt. Guzman has his shit together.
He works for people who tell lies and who expect those, who want their jobs, to tell lies too.
Ched you got that right. It is just the culture of the APS animal. Like the recent pedophile mess. Everyone at a school site knows it is against the law not to call in a report on abuse. They also know the insidious retribution when they do.
Yesterday APS Police had holsters with loaded guns in them on their hips during school hours. In late 2007. APS started employing special deputies in the early 1970s. 30 years it took to arm the special deputies. But the temporary stopgap measure of putting together a school posse of special deputies by the local sheriff with no law enforcemnt support system still exists. With no NCIC machine they are a crippled agency. What is the APS Police clearance rate for burglaries? How about assaults?
Sheriff White admits that it is his responisbility to protect school kids but hasn't the deputies to spare. He "allows" APS to pay for people and gives them training and special deputy commissions, or re-commissions veteran officers. For thirty years this temporary measure has been in place. I say time to codify the APS Police as a true law enforcement agency with full NCIC access and an ORI number.
They hae the training and the firearms, now lets legislate them into a full-fledged, stand-alone police force. Lets encourange them to solve cases and refer them to the DA, its what cops are supposed to do. On school grounds or not.
J. Lopez
J. Lopez
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