{"id":574,"date":"2013-02-20T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/20\/no-need-for-teachers-to-lock-n-load"},"modified":"2013-02-20T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:41:00","slug":"no-need-for-teachers-to-lock-n-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"No need for teachers to lock \u2018n load"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amarillo-area public school officials are taking the reasoned approach to dealing with gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t plan to arm school personnel with firearms. I applaud them.<\/p>\n<p>Gun violence has taken center stage in recent weeks. The heartache in Newtown, Conn., has become the nation\u2019s heartache. Twenty first-graders died in a massacre brought to them by a deranged teenager, who also killed six teachers who tried to protect the kids against the madman.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to that terrible event from public institutions and individuals has been varied and at times a bit overheated. But I\u2019m glad that Amarillo metro-area school officials are taking a measured approach to protecting our children. <\/p>\n<p>Their response is quite different from what Childress school officials\u2019 decision to arm certain personnel and keep firearms locked up in \u201csecure locations\u201d on school campuses. I wish them the very best luck in ensuring that they train their personnel adequately so that they don\u2019t make a tragic mistake in the event they need to unlock the weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo Independent School District Superintendent Rod Schroder said this week the district is \u201cactively reviewing our security procedures.\u201d That active review must be comprehensive, but it need not include putting more firearms in school buildings.<\/p>\n<p>One option might be what\u2019s been done for years in Dumas: creation of a school district police department.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t pretend to have the answers to the gun violence problem. One proposed \u201csolution\u201d that does concern me is the notion of putting more guns in school.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo-area public school officials are taking the reasoned approach to dealing with gun violence. They don\u2019t plan to arm school personnel with firearms. I applaud them. Gun violence has taken center stage in recent weeks. The heartache in Newtown, Conn., has become the nation\u2019s heartache. Twenty first-graders died in a massacre brought to them by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No need for teachers to lock \u2018n load<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}