Parents, teachers uneasy after second gun incident

[SecularMotion]

Parents and teachers in Baltimore County expressed a lingering uneasiness about school violence Wednesday, despite school officials' promises of beefed-up security after the second gun-related incident in two weeks.

The morning after an eighth-grader allegedly threatened his teacher and classmates with a gun at Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, police cruisers lined up alongside school buses. Less than 10 miles away, students went about their morning routines at Perry Hall High School, where a student was shot on the first day of school.

Meanwhile, school administrators, working to purchase new hand-held metal detectors, gathered to brainstorm ideas for creating the security office that schools Superintendent Dallas Dance announced Tuesday.

Some parents dropping their children off at Stemmers Run questioned the effectiveness of school initiatives to stem violence if parents aren't doing their part at home. Norman James Gatewood, the 70-year-old grandfather of the Stemmers Run student who was arrested after allegedly pulling a gun, was charged Tuesday with failing to secure the gun at his house.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-co-stemmers-folo-20120912,0,3718417.story

[glacierbay]

1. Ok,

so what's your point here?

[SecularMotion]

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[glacierbay]

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BTW, I'm not clicking on the link.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Give him access to Google? nt

[SecularMotion]

5. Here's a link

Google

[Missycim]

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[Remmah2]

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[virginia mountainman]

6. Omi god the gun free zones are not working! Nt

[Missycim]

9. It doesn't take much brain power to post a link and then run.

nt

[SecularMotion]

10. Hi stalker

[DonP]

11. Thanks for the confirmation

[Missycim]

12. hello google dumper

[petronius]

13. I think they make the very good point that safety practices at home outweigh

most of what a school can do, and it's interesting that the grandfather was charged in one case (does MD have a specific storage law, or does the charge stem from a general child endangerment statute, I wonder?)

This part though, struck me as an overreaction:

Police said a 15-year-old boy at the Forbush School — a Sheppard Pratt facility in Northwest Baltimore County that provides services for students with behavioral disabilities and autism — was charged with disorderly conduct and with disturbing school activities. Police said the student had joked about having a gun, but did not have a weapon.

Charging an apparently-disabled teen over a joke does not strike me as beneficial either toward safety or education...

[ileus]

14. Underage children should never have firearms at school.

I don't think any of us parents are totally comfortable with the security of our children in our schools.

For our county there's always a deputy on campus when children are going about their normal school day. May be a few dollars more on the tax bill but I feel more comfortable knowing at least a response won't be 30 minutes.