guns in schools

[tango]

I mean it is a school right? You can stab the person with a pencil if you want to hurt them badly enough.

True, although stabbing someone with a pencil does mean you have to be close enough to them to face their angry retribution.

Chances are the chemistry lab contains enough ingredients that you can make something very nasty. If not it's not all that hard to figure out combinations of innocuous looking things that, when combined, turn into something far less pleasant.

 

[dogs4thewin]

The point I was making was that if someone wanted to hurt someone they would find a way not so much the getting close to them aspect.

 

[tango]

I mean it is a school right? You can stab the person with a pencil if you want to hurt them badly enough.

Just re-reading this, I remember back in my schooldays when kids would try and sneak metal discs in and out of the metalwork lab to make throwing stars. Back then it was just for laughs, throwing them at wooden targets rather than at people or animals. Today I shudder to think what would happen if a kid got caught doing that.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Maybe students ought to have guns to protect them from potential attack by strangers and crazy teachers?

 

[Lamb]

Do we really want that though to turn schools and everywhere else into prisons of sorts. Plus, as relates to searching people that would be a bit on the time consuming side. Unless they plan on students arriving and therefore leaving at different times.

There are some schools where different grade levels leave at different times. It's rare but sometimes that's a good idea.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Still though, what you end up with is them also LEAVING at different times. Plus, you cannot have all grade levels at a different time since there are only so many hours in a day.

Additionally, you would need to watch what grade levels went when the younger the kids the more sleep they usually have and teens NEED 8 to 10 how often does that happen?

 

[MoreCoffee]

If safety is primary then home school and avoid the gun question altogether.

 

[tango]

Still though, what you end up with is them also LEAVING at different times. Plus, you cannot have all grade levels at a different time since there are only so many hours in a day.

Additionally, you would need to watch what grade levels went when the younger the kids the more sleep they usually have and teens NEED 8 to 10 how often does that happen?

On top of that it becomes more and more of a headache for parents with more than one child. It can't be easy dealing with getting one child to and from school if you also have to work for a living, how much harder is it going to be if one child has to be on the bus at 7 and off the bus at 3, while the next has to be on the bus at 9 and doesn't get off until 5?