New High School Has 140 Security Cameras

[harvey007]

New $92 million high school seems more like a prison than a school....

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-westy-hs-opens-txt,0,990028.story

"There are 140 security cameras, and full-time security officers monitoring them. The door locks are electronically controlled, and in case of an emergency part of the school or the entire school can be locked down.

Every visitor must present an ID at the front window. It is run against a national data base of registered sex offenders, and on the first day there was already a hit. Police were called to see if the parent should be allowed on campus."

[DJ13]

1. My high school had security guards, 10 ft chain link fences with barbed wire

And this was in the early 70's in the Los Angeles area.

[FormerDittoHead]

4. Yes - High School isn't College.

In the 70's we had ARMED GUARDS standing in the hallways of my JUNIOR HIGH.

High School isn't some half-assed open forum / free exchange of ideas. It's not Plato's Academy - for over half the kids - this is the last (formal) education they'll get.

There are some bad players hanging around and as far as I'm concerned, this is fine with me if it means either of my kids avoids getting beat up for wearing the wrong color that day.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Former?

[Auggie]

2. Forget about sneaking a smoke in the restroom...

[doc03]

6. That was my first thought, were are they going to have a

smoke. This country is turning into a police state. Who was it that said if you give up your freedoms for security you get neither?

[FiveGoodMen]

7. I think it was Ben Franklin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin

[FiveGoodMen]

3. If I were growing up now, I'd kill myself

And it would be a sensible decision.

America will never be the land of the free again.

And we have only ourselves to blame.

[Dawson Leery]

8. I have been out of school since the mid 1990's.

Can't say I miss it that much, though I was better off going to school when I did.
Children are overprotected these days. Everyone is hyper-pc.