Wednesday, January 09, 2013

BoE Approves 8 unarmed guards for 12 Stamford elementary schools

From Stamford Advocate: "On Tuesday night, the Board of Education’s labor relations committee voted to hire eight security guards to provide an extra measure of safety at the city’s 12 elementary schools. The guards — who are unarmed — will be charged with watching the front doors to make sure they lock after visitors enter, signing in visitors, making sure outsiders are identified at all times and other gatekeeping functions."

How are 8 security guards going to be distributed across the 12 elementary schools? Seems like a 3/4 solution at best, assuming hiring unarmed guards makes the schools any safer (which I don't believe it does). Has any one of these guards currently posted in the schools been given a mental background screen? Are they physically fit? Are they qualified to be working with children?

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