The death toll of American students this year is higher than that of our active duty military personnel. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has decided it is time to act, and he is focusing like a laser on the critical issue.
“We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built. And what I mean by that, there are too many entrances and too many exits to our over 8,000 campuses in Texas. There aren’t enough people to put a guard at every entrance and exit … but if we can protect a large office building or a courthouse or any major facility, maybe we need to look at limiting the entrances and exits into our schools so that we can have law enforcement looking at the people who come in one or two entrances.”
Fire safety is just so 20th century. As for the simple, obvious logistics of what he is proposing — don’t for a moment think he hasn’t thought about this:
“Schools may have to have to [pause for thought] have their start day [sic]. Not all students show up at once so that we don’t have every student — there are 1400 students at this school — trying to get through the door at once. We’re going to have to be creative. We’re going to have to think outside of the box.”
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