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Monday, February 4, 2013

School Safety Status Quo is Unacceptable, Says Parkway and Other Districts

While the Cooperating School Districts leader says school security plans are not a "one size fits all" proposition, he is advocating for changes that may require new taxes.

(Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) One attendee at last week's Safe Schools Partnership meeting was Don Senti, former Parkway superintendent and executive director of the Cooperating School Districts (CSD). He said superintendents who are CSD members are opposed to arming school staffers to provide security for school children. The Parkway School District is a member of the CSD organization. (Read more on the CSD's stance on school safety in the PDF portion of this article.) "Providing security for our most precious resource should be in the capable hands of those professionals who are trained in the use of fire arms, and more importantly, who know when to use them," Senti said. "Therefore, we …

Mark N Starla Traina

11:49 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The "THUG REPORT" http://www.thugreport.com/ Charles' depiction of Success based on Race is much more obvious in 2013 than back in the 70's and 80's now that nearly all of the Whites have left cities like New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Oakland desolated and with little hope for recovery! Businesses will not open in Crime and Crack Infested Slums, …   more ›

Monday, December 24, 2012

Governor Nixon: Don't Arm Missouri School Teachers

Legislation that would allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in school has the support of Missouri House Republican leaders.

A spokesman for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced Monday that Nixon has sent letters to all 520 public school superintendents in the state, opposing legislation that would allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry their weapon at school. (Sign up here for the FREE Patch Newsletter, including Breaking News Alerts.) The bill for the 2013 legislative session was filed following the Newtown, CT shooting which left 26 people, including 20 children, dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is co-sponsored by House Republican leaders, including House Speaker Tim Jones and Majority Leader John Diehl. “Here in Missouri we have a strong framework of laws to protect students and educators, such as the Missouri Safe Schools Act, which…

J.E.B. Stuart

2:27 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013

On a volunteer basis have some teachers or staff members being trained in defensive tactics same as we undergo in police training. The knowledge to a perpetrator contemplating a crime within a school, that any attempt may be met with a swift deadly reprisal in most cases will be deterant enough. We have to take away the notion that a Gun Free School Zone is no longer a gun free killing field.   more ›

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