February 20,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, here is a white paper prepared by the NJ School Security Task Force.
On December 14, 2012, a gunman blasted through a glass entryway at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and within minutes murdered 20 children and six adults. Since the day of the tragedy, local boards of education throughout our nation have faced the question: What else must be done to ensure the safety and security of schoolchildren?
The New Jersey School Boards Association’s Safe and Secure Schools Project was an immediate response to that question and involved a major statewide forum on school security at The College of New Jersey in January 2013. As a continuation of that effort, NJSBA President John Bulina appointed a School Security Task Force in March 2013 to provide the Association’s membership with additional guidance and direction on school safety issues.
What Makes Schools Safe?, the final report of the NJSBA School Security Task Force, is the culmination of a year’s work to inform the discussion of school safety and security. The report and its 45 recommendations should be viewed as a resource to help determine further federal, state and local action to ensure the physical and emotional well-being of our students.
https://www.njsba.org/…/research/school-security-task-force/
We park two police cruisers on either side of a solitary PSEG truck all day long. I am sure we can deploy one officer to each of the schools for half the day instead. Problem solved.
Shooters go to schools because they are soft targets. One police officer outside the school changes that, and that is all the change that is needed.
arm and train the kids
I’m all for security at all schools. But who’s flipping the bill the Board of Education or is the village can re-compensated from the county or the state or the federal government. Because I’m sure this is going to be a lot of overtime for the boys in blue. Which is all well and good, it’s for a good thing. But the village did not budget for this. I know that the police department has the biggest overtime budget. So in the end or the village taxpayers paying for this like I said before Or. We will Be compensated. Just a thought. For going forward. I’m for a full-time police officer in each school. Anything and everything for our kids. Thank you
12:09 I don’t understand the question, or at least I hope I don’t understand the question. Security is going to cost money and will need to be built into the cost of running the schools. I agree with you that it’s money well spent. There is no source for that money that is not us. The state uses our money to run the state. If the state pays for something, then we’ve paid for that thing. The feds do the same. If they have money it’s come from us (or they printed it, which means, ironically, that the kids are paying for their own protection). If they get money through corporate taxes, we have paid the money to corporations in the price of what we buy from them. Are you suggesting that people in Camden or in Nebraska should pay to protect Ridgewood’s schools? Who then pays to protect theirs? Sadly the way our elected officials treat the residents of Ridgewood the way it will really work is that Ridgewood taxpayers will pay to protect schools in Camden and Nebraska in addition to our own…
Yes the Taxpayers in the end will be paying for everything.