Security guards in high schools
I was talking to my eldest teenage daughter recently and I asked if anything new was going on at school. Both my teenage daughters go to high schools in the Beaverton School District.
My daughter told me that one of the security guards recently got her license. According to my daughter now that the security guard has her license she can now grab, and even tackle, students in order to drag them to the principal’s officer or wherever they drag erring, recalcitrant students.
Apparently each high school has two security guards.
Also, according to my daughter, there is one cop assigned to each high school.
I tend to think having a couple of security guards and a cop roaming about the high schools is a good idea, although I understand some students aren’t exactly ecstatic with the situation.
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I went to public high school in Gresham and we had a security guard and a police officer roaming the campus. My senior year they installed security cameras. And this was 10 years ago. I don’t know whether these measures helped lowered crime in our school, but most of us didn’t mind that they were there.