School Security Quotes

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

Look at the facts, look at the circumstances if you choose to have an open mind and understand and care deeply about the safety of children in this country in schools.Schools are a weak spot. Bad guys know that they are gun-free zones, because they prey on it. So why can't we be honest about what's going on and do something to help save kids, whether it's having teachers that are trained and carry weapons, dogs in the classrooms, like canines for cops?I think it's very good.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

It shouldn't be just the rich and the powerful that send their children to schools where there is armed security. Parents shouldn't be holding their breath because there's no security in schools they're sending their children to.

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.