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Originally Posted by Bob148
Maybe not, but students being safe, should be number one.
Should we require teachers to sacrifice themselves for their students? Private security guards? Public police officers?
What if we spend so much resources securing our schools that crime goes up elsewhere? What's the net gain in overall safety for a kid who lives in a crack house or with an abusive father?
How much teaching time across 1,000,000 schools would we sacrifice to ensure the safety at 1?
These are not questions with easy answers. I think that student safety should be a high priority, but I recognize there are other high priorities.
If a kid has a 1/1,000,000 chance of getting shot at school and a 1/1,000 chance of getting hit by a car crossing the street in front of the school, then magically banning cars is going to do 1,000x as much as magically banning guns.
Put another way, let me pose another complicated question: is the goal to make people safer, or to feel safer? It would be great to have a solution that did both and arguably we're in a situation where we have neither, but if you had two proposals - one that would make people feel safe (but wouldn't actually make them safer) and one that would make people safer (but they wouldn't recognize it), which one would be better? I don't know the answer.