Militarized Schooling? “Newtown Was A Nuclear Bomb That Changed Everything”

The following sign on the grass in front of a Texas school sums up where we are with the militarization of education in America.

As WSJ reports, public schools nationwide are greeting students for the fall term with a host of new security measures including adding armed guards, giving guns to employees, installing perimeter fencing, and bulletproof glass. “It’s kind of the way of the world, unfortunately,” notes one parent, but bulking up on security has led some parents and experts to question how it affects students. The idea of “hardening” schools against intruders took on urgency after Dec 2012: “Newtown was a nuclear bomb that changed the whole landscape of everything.”

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 08/27/2014.