Preschools in America look like a prison not a school

The public primary school for pre-kindergarteners featured in the video below gave me chills. The brightly colored buildings belied their cold, hard, metal feel. The front entrance is card key secured, and a thick metal door attached to a gated metal security tunnel with a metal walkway leads back to a hallway of numbered, metal buildings. Every single window, including the little ones on the thick metal doors inside, have metal gratings bolted on the outside of them.

It felt like I was walking through a prison facility.

Four-year-olds attend this campus. That means these little ones are spending the majority of their weekdays all day long inside this place. These kids are literally being taught from the time they are tiny that spending one’s day in a prison-like gated metal security facility is somehow “normal” — this prepares them to expect nothing less than total control.

This is just one example of a public school in modern day America. The president is currently mulling around with creating a federal universal daycare as part of the public education program in this country, and there is talk of making school run all year long without a summer break…with the implementation of CCTV cameras all over campuses, biometric scanning programs to buy lunches and check out library books, and RFID chip tracker tag ID cards, it would appear our schools are becoming way too much like our prisons.

Michael Snyder of American Dream Blog wrote about 18 examples of how life for students who attend public schools is the equivalent of being in a prison: 

“In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid.  Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons.  Most parents don’t realize this, but our students have very few rights when they are in school.  Our public school students are being watched, tracked, recorded, searched and controlled like never before.”

There’s a reason Rutherford Institute founder and constitutional lawyer John Whitehead refers to schools as one more part of America’s ever-expanding ‘electronic concentration camp‘. Our kids are being taught that giving up privacy and basic freedom to go about their daily lives in security lockdown while being continuously watched, chipped, tracked, traced, and totally controlled is…normal.
http://truthstreammedia.com/is-this-a-preschool-or-a-prison-we-cant-really-tell-the-difference/ 

Back to school: From armed guards to door buzzers, different takes on security

Eight months after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown left 26 people dead, many schools across the state are preparing to welcome students back from summer break with increased security measures in place.

But which types of safety measures and how they should be funded has been a source of debate, with no clear consensus on the best way to protect children and staff members.

In Enfield, each of the town's 14 public and parochial schools will have an armed guard at the door when they open for the year Sept. 3. Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said he believes armed guards are the best deterrent for an "active shooter" like Adam Lanza in Newtown.

All Glastonbury schools also will have guards at the doors when school starts Aug. 29. The high school and Smith Middle School already had guards stationed there, and the town added seven additional guards at a cost of $315,000 for the school year.

Other school districts have chosen to add cameras, door buzzers, card-swipe entry systems or other, less drastic, security measures.

"We don't necessarily believe that having an armed guard in front of a school is the most productive way to make a school safer, for a variety of reasons," said East Hartford Superintendent Nate Quesnel. The father of six said, "I don't want to live in an America where we have to have an armed guard in a school that my children go to."

Instead, officials in East Hartford are planning approximately $175,000 worth of infrastructure improvements. About $50,000 has already been spent on such upgrades, including installing "access control systems" at Norris, Pitkin, Synergy and East Hartford High schools, Quesnel said. Most of the town's schools already had card-swipe locking systems on doors, Quesnel said.

"We're in the business of schools, not prisons," he said. "We're not of the belief that schools should be covered in bulletproof glass with concertina wire at the front door."

In Bloomfield, district officials have spent about $110,000 on beefing up security, including new cameras and buzzer systems at multiple entrances to several schools, and a new system that allows district and public safety personnel to remotely view and replay live and recorded video footage from campus cameras. They also have placed large planters and other blocking devices in front of glass-dominated school entrances.

West Hartford schools added $250,000 worth of security upgrades to this year's budget. "Panic buttons" are being tested at some schools to work out any bugs that may crop up, according to Tom Moore, assistant superintendent for administration. The buttons are linked to the police department and also allow the schools to receive alerts about emergencies like tornadoes, Moore said, and will be in all schools as soon as possible.

Keycard entry systems will be installed at all West Hartford's schools by the beginning of October, Moore said. And the district increased the number of "roving" security guards at the 11 elementary schools and two middle schools. Police officers are already stationed at the two high schools.

In Avon, new alarms, door locks and surveillance equipment were installed during the summer or will be in place in the next month or so. The town allocated $240,000 for the safety projects.

The list is endless, read more:
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-school-security-0825-20130825,0,1906279.story 

Firearm accidentally discharges at high school: 

YORK, S.C. -- The York County Sheriff's Office says a deputy working on the campus of a high school in York accidentally discharged his sidearm outside of the school Monday morning.

About 7:30, officials say the SRO's firearm accidentally discharged into the sidewalk outside the building near "Cougar Plaza", where students are frequently dropped off at the campus of York Comprehensive High School.

The gun was in the holster at the time the shot was fired, officials say.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/neighborhood-news/Deputy-accidentally-discharges-firearm-at-high-school-221164481.html

Public school is now officially a prison for your children; parents not allowed to walk kids to class:

Dallas, TX – For some it’s the end of a tradition that has taken place for generations. Security enhancements at many North Texas schools this year may keep parents at the curb.

All of the extra security is in response to what happened nearly nine months ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It was December of last year when a gunman opened fire at the school, killing 20 students and six adults.

In the Hurst-Euless-Bedford (HEB) Independent School District, the tradition of walking a young one to class won’t change…for the first week. What’s already being done in other districts is about to happen there.

Parents registered and enrolled their children today, one week before the school year begins for the HEB school system.

But there’s a new rule waiting for parents like Tamara Moore and Angela Shamblin.  It deals with access to their youngsters and both mothers have a certain view about the rule.

“I really want to take my son to class. Since it’s his first time in school,” Moore said protectively. “They may have security, but I want to know where my kid is going at all times.”

Shamblin had a different viewpoint as she dropped off her little one. “As long as I can see him walk in that building, that will be fine. Because once he’s in that building they’ll take care of him.”

The Richardson ISD, for example, hasn’t allowed parents to walk students to classrooms for years.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/08/19/school-security-changes-have-parents-dropping-kids-at-the-curb/
http://www.naturalnews.com/041798_public_schools_parents_security_measures.html

School District ends policy of forcing students to kneel down in front of the principal:

Yucaipa, CA - School district officials in San Bernardino County say they will discontinue a policy that required elementary school students to kneel down before being dismissed to class.

Principal Dana Carter at Calimesa Elementary School had reportedly instituted the policy, which called for students at various times of the school day to kneel down on one knee and wait for the principal or another administrator to dismiss them, as a safety measure.

A flyer had been circulated among parents alleging Carter began the policy as “a positive way to enforce safety” among students, usually right before classes begin or immediately after recess.

Yucaipa Calimesa Unified School District Superintendent Cali Binks told KCAL9 the policy – which was described as “positive behavior intervention” – will no longer be enforced at Calimesa Elementary after several parents spoke out against the practice.

Mass phone notifications were sent out on Tuesday informing parents that students will not be made to kneel effective immediately.

At least one mother told KCAL9′s Tom Wait she was upset after hearing that her 7-year-old daughter was allegedly forced to kneel before Carter.

“She says that she has to drop down on one knee with her hands at her side, wait for the principal to come out, lift his arms and tell them to go to class,” said the mom.

“I feel that the principal wants to be like a king, and we don’t have kings in America,” she added.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/08/20/students-allegedly-forced-to-kneel-down-for-dismissal-at-yucaipa-school/ 

How schools use fear to brainwash students to trust the system; A parent’s story:
http://truthstreammedia.com/public-schools-brainwashing-students-with-fear-a-parents-story/ 

School bus hijacking drill takes place in Rossford:

Rossford, Ohio - A training exercise this Rossford Wednesday morning left students literally hanging on to the edge of their seats.

In the scenario: A school bus is en route to an event when suddenly it's hijacked! A camera inside the bus captured the whole thing while an audience of school teachers, administrators and transportation directors watched it all unfold on a live feed.

The hijacker even tied some of the students up and told them to keep their heads down. The bus eventually ended up at Owens Center for Emergency Preparedness.That's where first responders and SWAT teams were ready to move in.

"Every driver, administrator will take something away from this saying that this could actually happen on my bus. That's what our focus was. This could happen on any bus", says Jeff Culler, Rossford Schools Transportation Director.
http://www.abc12.com/story/23136375/school-bus-hijacking-drill-take-place-in-rossford 


Our public schools and the growing police state:
 http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2013/08/our-public-schools-and-growing-police.html

Putting police in schools means putting more children behind bars:
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2013/04/putting-police-in-schools-means-putting.html