right on Kane..."angst in the community"...seriously?! Some re-calibration is in order if they were really burning calories of angst over this.

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It's actually infuriating that the school district is willing to spend $99,000 total on some stupid rebranding before spending money to instill measures that keep our kids safer in schools.

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That's what the mandatory picture ID program at AMCHS (instituted about ten years ago) was supposed to do, protecting students and faculties from people who weren't supposed to be there, and according to a story I heard from a teacher that's what actually happened (in the case of the Parkland shooter, he wasn't supposed to be there either), and there's safe shelter in place drills as well.

I'm pretty sure that all the CSISD schools have a "school resource officer" already. And I know that some students are probably bound for it anyway, but I've never heard of a "make schools safer" solution that doesn't make schools resemble prisons more and more.

The middle schools and high schools have them.

How about mandatory morning marksmanship practice for all faculty and staff?

Is the colors and mascot of a middle school that important to have issues with.

How many of us can remember our middle school colors and mascot?

woodiewood1 said:

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Is the colors and mascot of a middle school that important to have issues with.

How many of us can remember our middle school colors and mascot?

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Exactly....No, its not. Nonetheless, money, time and effort were just spent because someone does have/had issues. Wonder who ?

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It's actually infuriating that the school district is willing to spend $99,000 total on some stupid rebranding before spending money to instill measures that keep our kids safer in schools.

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This comment pulls back the curtain of a much larger issue that goes all the way back to the beginnings of what we now call 'public' education, and the slow, frog-boiling mission-creep that it has become over the last 100 years - from being a small, one-room schoolhouse to now, being the largest employer in Brazos County behind A&M - funded by a Byzantine system that hides the forever increasing budget from those being taxed to pay for it.

There is so much wrong with the system as it has become, that short of chucking the entire thing out and starting over, I don't know what to do other than move to Kenedy County.

It's possible injection of competition into the system - privatization - could provide a solution - put an end to the huge, corporate mega campi with multiple layers of administration and replace them with numerous competing ones all vying for a much lower per-student tax payout. Parents could then pick schools like they pick grocery stores, albeit spending some of the taxpayers' money along with whatever they want to glom on to get their special snowflake into 'Football High', 'Ivy-League High', 'Future Failure High' or any other that addresses little Jane or Johnny's particular peccadillos.

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Stupe said:

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And you just know that this is eventually going to reach Stupid Level: Epic and they will decide that the middle school kids can't wear the shirt of the high school they are going to attend in order to avoid "conflict and distractions and feelings of superiority"

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FIFY

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