How to Make Schools Safer - TIME

How to Make Schools Safer - TIME: "It is not just deranged individuals who can invade a school and threaten our children. In the world of international terrorism, children and schools are considered soft targets, providing high visibility for terrible acts that enrage and demoralize civilized communities. Just two years ago, this reality was confirmed when Chechen rebels invaded an elementary school in the remote Russian city of Beslan, killing more than 150 children and an equal number of teachers and other adults.

The problem is that access to schools almost anywhere in the world is, by the nature of these institutions, relatively easy. Schools are supposed to be places where parents entrust officials to oversee the development and education of their children, not pen them in. Traditionally, openness is unfettered by fear of physical or emotional violence. Turning our schools into armed fortresses would be counterproductive, unrealistic and, for the vast majority of our children, entirely unnecessary."

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