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Originally Posted by Lan
You can't tell me irresponsible spending can't be remedied to make our schools safer by adding security to our public schools.
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Public schools (K-12) belong to their local communities and monitored/certified by individual state departments of education; they do not belong to the state or federal governments, and it is the community's responsibility to enact such measures as they - the communities - desire.
Many school districts do have armed RSOs (Resource Safety Officers) on campus; they did in the DFW area and one district I know of in North Texas allows specified staff/faculty to CCW on their district's campuses. Where I live now, which is the 5th largest school district in California and the largest in Northern California, there are RSOs on school campuses.
Communities have to ask themselves what it is they want, because you cannot rail against the perception of an encroaching controlling government on the one hand and decry its failure to provide something that has always been a local initiative and responsibility (and IMO should remain such) on the other.
Richard 
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