Conservatives think greater militarized countermeasures will improve learning.
Classrooms seem so last century when there are prisons that can be filled.
Attacks at public schools also make private schools more attractive.
This crisis also serves a privatization tendency spurred by charter schools as the RW tries to delimit classic liberal education by further segmenting and marginalizing populations by race/gender/class divisions.
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In contrast, the issue with putting armed police or guards in every school isn’t that it’s impractical. It’s that we’re already doing it, and it’s not working. According to the National Association of School Resource Officers, around 40 percent of public schools in America have at least one full-time or part-time school resource officer (SRO) — a law enforcement officer deployed to work in one or more schools.
On the left, the best means to end school shootings and mass shootings of any kind would be to massively limit access to guns and the number of guns any American can own, full stop. But the right finds any effort to curb the Second Amendment, by any means, to be anathema. And yet ironically, as Reason magazine’s Robby Soave has pointed out, many conservatives seem all too willing to put the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments at risk instead.