Huge irony it was. At a time when some among us are objecting to school resources officers carrying Tasers in the public schools, high school students (a fourth later was charged in the crime) are being implicated in serious crimes.
Of course, the guilt or innocence of these four Southwest Guilford students will be determined later when state judicial system proceedings properly run their course. But already there is ample evidence, here and everywhere, to support the position that law enforcement officers assigned to local schools should carry Tasers.
Thursday’s conference, sponsored by the High Point Human Relations Commission and the YWCA, came in light of an incident at Ragsdale High School in September in which a female student who had threatened two school administrators and assaulted an officer was Tasered. The record contains plenty of reports of fights among students – such a brawls at T.W. Andrews a few years ago – and violence in our schools, including injuries to school administrators assaulted by students – such as happened a few years ago at High Point Central High.
Officers must be armed sufficiently to provide the protection for students and administrators that they are assigned to schools to provide. Our preference is for an officer to reach for a Taser instead of the standard firearm officers carry on our streets if forced to do so to subdue a violent student. Obviously, officers must be thoroughly trained in how and when to use Tasers in subduing a student. And clear rules should guide officers in their use.
Officers in Guilford’s schools have carried Tasers for about four years now. They’ve used them sparingly and under proper circumstances, as far as we have seen. We see no need to disarm them.
Disagree all you want and that's okay but it's sad to me to read articles about School Security Officers and the need to use tazers in schools. Doesn't that sound even remotely out of place, wrong, or sad to anyone whether or not you believe in prayer in schools.
Doesn't the fact that children in our school being so disrespectful to adults in schools bother anyone against prayer in schools in the least.
I realize that there are numerous reasons, in addition (especially due to) not having prayer in schools that has contributed to the problems in schools, however, since we've taken God out of schools, they've become battlefields.
Call me whatever, I don't care. Like it or not, we have major problems in schools and when God was in schools, yes we still had problems but they were more like bad boys and girls chewing gum in schools and even bullying but at least then the bully in most cases were held accountable for their actions rather than the person being bullied being put on public display.
Now we are discussing having to use tazers on students. Doesn't that sound the least bit disturbing that we're having to use tazers?
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There wasn't as much violence in schools in the Good Old Days, true, but I've seen numerous accounts of it happening. Mostly it was just being expressed elsewhere. For example, I know people who saw black men lynched while growing up. Then the same people who did that or stayed quiet about it went to teach class and made their students pray.
I challenge you people that thinks tasers should not be allowed, go to a school for a couple of days and observe your sweet little kids and see for yourself what you have raised. Maybe you will change your mind, then again, maybe not.
Taking prayer out of school was a start of the violence, and giving the students everything they want continues, and it will get worse. What happend to the "good old paddle"? We had no violence in the 50's and 60's. Never saw an officer. Of coarse all the students didn't have new cars, as a matter of fact, we had no cars. We rode the bus, and there was no cutting up on it either. Why so much corruption now in the schools? Think it over, and see where the finger is pointing.