Citizen patrols to be 'eyes and ears' on Lake school campuses

[alp227]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

They'll be clad in blue shirts, khaki hats, armed with identification badges and trained to be on the lookout for everything from potential lunchroom brawls to irate parents storming onto campus.

After months of closed-door discussions about how to improve campus security in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, Lake County School Board members decided one way to make schools safer is to put blue-shirted citizen-patrol volunteers on campus.

The program, to debut in elementary schools next month, aims to give campus administrators and school deputies and "extra set of eyes and ears," says Reginald Young, Lake school's security services manager. Although volunteers won't have discipline powers or the authority to detain students, their vigilance and reporting will be key.

"Observe and report," Young said. "That's key on our campus. Being able to identify if there's someone out there lurking on the curbage of the school or if there's an irate individual coming onto campus."

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Apparently they have no fear of a Zimmerman situation?

[SwankyXomb]

8. In this scenario, they're the Zimmermans.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. curbage lurking will not be tolerated.

[alfredo]

3. Chiang Kai-shek's fascist organization was called the "Blue Shirt Society."

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Great. . .informants. I smell kids running to these idiots and lying the way they do to teachers

"Teacher, Jimmy just said he is going to beat up Johnny."

"Yes, Teacher, we all heard it."

Jimmy now has to prove he didn't say it, even when all Jimmy did was eat his lunch. . .just because the students don't like Jimmy and bully him.

These blue-shirt volunteers will not know the dynamics of the school and the students, so if they get this reported to them, they will run to the principal immediately.

BAD IDEA!!!!

[Android3.14]

5. Blue. Brown. It's still a Nazi move

That is fricken' scary.
It's far past time to be saying, No. Fuck, no.

[FrodosPet]

7. What about

Please tell me this is not what you are saying

[Android3.14]

13. Slippery slope

This is what I am saying.

[FrodosPet]

14. It's a no win situation

I would say nowadays you need security in the schools to help prevent violence, but then, where I was going to High School in the late 1970s, students were stabbing and shooting each other. It was just never a mass casualty thing, but one definitely went to school in fear.

We could say "put more sworn officers in the schools", but police can be authoritarian a-holes who have the force of law behind them.

So what can the schools do to keep kids safe without turning the schools into a police state?

[Android3.14]

15. That's easy

Perhaps we could start out by declining to pretend students are in more danger in schools than they are, say, in the bathroom at home.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Is this that Florida ISD where they were scanning students' irises into a Corporate database w/o

parental consent??

[alp227]

9. yes

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/22466200/school-district-apologizes-after-students-irises-scanned-polk-county-florida

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52087132/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/controversial-iris-scanning-program-could-keep-kids-safer/

[TM99]

10. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are all the rage today!

This is sad and scary on so many levels, because we all know absolutely nothing untoward will ever occur with such a system in place.

[tanyev]

11. Sounds more like a citoyen patrol.

[onehandle]

12. Let's not put more money into schools to make them better and the kids better...

...let's treat schools like prisons and get them used to their more probable future... prison.

[Duckwraps]

16. Could this be another Zimmerman incident

waiting to happen? I hope these folks are thoroughly screened and given background checks. We also don't want a pedophile sneaking in among them.

[mikehiggins]

17. Florida, right?

A poster below raises the possibility that pedophiles, et al, could wind up on the patrol. Well, of course. Who else is going to have the time and energy to go into schools and try to keep "eyes and ears" on a herd of kids? Not that it'd be limited to pedos. There are also drug pushers, authoritarian freaks and a whole list of anti-social, destructive types that would just love to be put in any sort of position of authority over kids.

Guaranteed. If this goes into practice it won't even take two years to hear about 4th graders being pimped out by these clowns.

But we are talking about FLorida. They would probably stick the kids in a for-profit jail where they can learn some new trades.

I fear for the republic...but I don't know if that includes Fla