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So much security theater just to allow someone like this to waltz into a classroom to openly berate children.
working for a school district it's pretty strange it got that far. I get yelled at if I cross a campus and I don't have a badge on
My thoughts as well! She should've been noticed as not belonging much earlier.
Who tf has this kind of time on their hands for such petty bullshit?
Seems like the childfree communities are leaking...
Childfree communities hate parents. Children are just their poor choices manifest.
My partner has been in some child free communities and i saw a lot of people hating on kids. Most of the stories she'd relay were about kids being annoying with minimal mention of their parents.
My old boss was super into those groups and would post just vile, hateful stuff about kids.
I do think that child free groups are mostly about hating kids, in practice.
That's very idealist of you, and that's how it should be, but it's not always that way
It actually is nearly always that way until parents come in to those spaces and start deliberately misinterpreting things and claiming the straw men they've built are saying hateful things about kids. Most parents see hate in any refusal to glaze them for their choice to become parents. And they nearly all see hate in not being impressed by or wanting to coo over their little vacation souvenirs.
I don't have kids, likely never will given the state of the world, but the absolute vile shit I've seen from child free communities ensures I'll never use that label.
Ok. Whatever you have to tell yourself.
I wouldn’t have nearly as much disdain for those communities if they focused on bad parents instead of attacking children.
This is easily the third time today you’ve said something correct and insightful and been downvoted to hell.
The fuck is wrong with Lemmy?
This is a male-dominated space and some of them really don't like outspoken women.
I don't see the "so much" security theater you're referring to, and it seems like she got very lucky. She appeared young enough to blend in with the other students but also appeared old enough to be a substitute teacher and had attended the high school not that long ago (and conveniently lived right across the street).
During her scouting the week prior, she "heard other staff in the main office talking about the substitute teacher agency and told the secretary she was a substitute", so she had that established ahead of time. On the day she went into the classroom, eight of the approximately 70 teachers were absent, and one of those positions happened to be unfilled by a sub (something she couldn't possibly have foreseen).
Incidentally, unrelated to your comment, here's the local news source instead of the trash tabloid Metro.
Do you know what schools have implemented in the effort to cut down on school shootings?
That's the security theater I'm talking about. The security theater that should have caught this woman. If she had a gun, there would be a lot of dead students right now.
Milwaukee public schools use metal detectors.
This video specifically shows what Rufus King (this high school) does. You're assuming her having a gun wouldn't have changed this, but it would've. Because part of that "so much security theater" is scanning people who enter the school.
Yes, see the video above.
And per the school's own admission, teachers recognized her as a former student and didn't say anything at the time.
There's also many ways around metal detectors, especially when the school shows that they don't follow protocols anyway.
I mean a former student definitely can be a substitute teacher
If you're drawing that from:
It seems extremely clear that what the letter is saying isn't that the staff saw her impersonating a substitute and looked the other way; it's that once the students reported her, staff who worked there were able to identify her as a former student.
If this isn't what you were talking about and I'm missing something, I apologize.
Schools are more secure than airports. It's not just theatre.
She got away with a lot because people did recognize that she belonged there and she was unarmed. And she still got lucky.