Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Spring-Ford Looks at Armed Guards in Each Building



The travels of my company's sole municipal reporter for the region can take me far and wide ... and sometimes to more meetings than one in a night.

Having been attracted to the Limerick Township Supervisors meeting by a vote on a new police contract -- more on that tomorrow -- I found myself free by 8 p.m., only a half-hour into the Spring-Ford School Board meeting just down the road.

And so your intrepid reporter trundled down Lewis Road to what, according to the agenda, would be the back half of meeting with no big news anticipated.

And then Mark Dehnert spoke.

Noting the recent tragedy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, Dehnert said he would like to see the administration look into having armed security in every school building.

And suddenly, there was news, both timely and poignant.

It just goes to show you, never trust an agenda.

Anyway, as you will be able to see from the Tweets below, the conversation ranged from whether armed security would be effective -- "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Dehnert in his best NRA impression of NRA President Wayne LaPierre -- to when and how longs the doors to the school are open.

The fact that the district just had a security audit two years ago seemed relevant, said Superintendent David Goodin. After all, the district already has two armed security guards based at the high school, but which visit all 11 buildings, he said.

Ultimately, the board agreed to ask for a cost-analysis of having armed security in each building, as well as a cursory review of the two-year-old audit by the company that did it.

You can read about that, and more, in the Tweets below:

1 comment:

  1. Taxes go up every year in this school district, we citizens can't afford this. We need fiscally responsible people on this school board.

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