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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hutchings asked the city council last night to immediately reinstate SROs.  If you watch the video in attached news article from Channel 7, at the end he states that the student that brought the loaded weapon to school because he didn’t feel safe there (from which I infer the student had some sort of threat against him and was bringing it for protection, perhaps similar to the student in the Arlington, TX shooting this weekend).

And IF there are similarities in these events, let’s take a moment to look at what happened in TX this week. From eye witness accounts and a video there was a fight in the classroom in which the shooter was beaten. After the fight was broken up, the shooter gets his gun out of his backpack and shoots the student who beat him up and the teacher is also shot. The shooter’s family has claimed the shooter was repeatedly bullied and didn’t feel safe at school.

So just because this wasn’t a “mass shooting” (which by definition is two or more people killed in the same shooting) doesn’t mean this wasn’t awful or that it couldn’t have been much worse with more students shot either purposefully or by ricochet bullets.

Could an SRO made a difference?  Could metal detectors at the door made a difference? Is it the job of a teacher to intervene vs that of an SRO when violence between students who are big enough to be/are adult size is present or a potential?

http://wjla.com/news/local/school-board-city-council-return-sros-alexandria-city-schools[/quote]

The Texas school had SROs.[/quote]

Correct. It was a very small shooting because of that.[/quote]

I am original PP. I was trying to ask the question whether having an SRO would have prevented what happened at ACHS/TC.  In the WJLA article in the video one parent who spoke to the news and the school board is even advocating for metal detectors.  He says his son is getting beat up repeatedly, as recent as last week.

The video of the Arlington, TX classroom fight is online, you can do a google search for it and find it on twitter. There are two people in the fight, one who is beating up another.  The aggressor is incredibly violent, throws the other kid across the room, into chairs, into a bookshelf.  You can hear what I suspect is a female teacher yelling "HELLO" to get their attention, but this is an incredibly violent beating, all one side, it's not really a fight by my standards because the kid getting beat up has zero chance.  What is "HELLO" going to do?  How is a teacher supposed to handle this without herself getting severely hurt?  Once the fight is broken up, apparently the kid who got beaten up (with the white shirt) is the one who gets a gun out of his backpack and shots the kid (in black) that basically beat the cr@p out of him.  The shooting is NOT on the video.  But I think people should watch the video of the beating, and the video on the GWMS fight insta page that shows the McDonalds encounter from earlier this week to hone in what is happening to our youth.  Some kids are literally getting violently beat up.  Some kids have become insanely violent to triggers (whether they are the ones being beat up and bring a gun to school OR they're the ones beating the day lights out of people).

I'm sorry but we need SROs AND mental health professionals at ACHS. Yesterday.  It's unconscionable what is happening.[/quote]

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