Dallas has SOLVED school shootings

[Nevilledog]

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#Breaking: Clear or mesh backpacks required for Dallas middle and high school students
A group of J. L. Long Middle School students wear clear backpacks on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in Dallas, TX.
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Clear or mesh backpacks required for Dallas middle and high school students
Dallas middle school and high school students must use clear or mesh backpacks when classes start next month, district officials announced Monday.
7:42 AM · Jul 18, 2022

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/07/18/clear-or-mesh-backpacks-required-for-dallas-middle-and-high-school-students/

Dallas middle school and high school students must use clear or mesh backpacks when classes start next month, district officials announced Monday.

The shift – which follows the deadly Uvalde school shooting – comes as districts work to improve campus safety nationwide.

“We acknowledge that clear or mesh backpacks alone will not eliminate safety concerns,” according to a new district webpage. “This is merely one of several steps in the district’s comprehensive plan to better ensure student and staff safety.”

The administration purchased clear backpacks for all secondary students and plans to distribute them before the start of the school year. It will cost about $800,000 to supply the bags to DISD’s roughly 70,000 middle and high school students.

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Of course this would have done exactly ZERO to stop the Uvalde massacre.

[milestogo]

1. Who is making money off this requirement?

[Nevilledog]

4. You can bet they vote for and donate to Republicans.

[Walleye]

5. They're certainly not gonna waste their money on school lunches for underprivileged children

Whose brother-in-law owns a backpack business? Or some other relative of the school board. I smell a grift

[tulipsandroses]

7. "The school safety business" is booming

I read another article that talked about schools using bullet proof safety pods, costs up to 30K each.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/16/1111742285/safety-pods-school-safety

[Javaman]

2. so what you're telling me is that now because an "off campus" shooter has to wear a clear backpack..

all will be well?

well, ain't that fucking grand.

what a bunch of nra sycophants.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Excuse me. Young man. But you can't go into that

Room because you don't have the required backpack.

Probably won't work.

[Javaman]

9. and besides, I don't think kevlar backpacks come in clear.

how's the nra/gop supposed to square that?

[LakeArenal]

10. I thought GOP wanted Kevlar backpacks!?!

[Walleye]

3. Yeah these kids better get used to having no privacy whatsoever

[Coventina]

6. I'm sure many families are thrilled to spend time and money to find such things.

Growing up, my family couldn't even afford to buy backpacks.

We always had to rely on someone else's donations.

[Meadowoak]

11. My school district purchased clear backpacks for all students

After Sandy hook, I thought it was already a thing.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I've Been To Several Schools With That Rule

At least 5, maybe more.
Another poster mentioned Sandy Hook as the precipitating event, but i wasn't subbing back that far.
I think around here it was a reaction to Stoneman in Parkland.
All that said, i saw less of that last school year, so it may be waning.

[flying_wahini]

13. Now they can pat themselves on the back and say they tried.

Republicans are buffoons.

[bluedigger]

14. Have they heard of pockets?

Maybe just put them all in jumpsuits to solve that. Shoelaces can be weapons, too. Get them all ready for the real world.