Public School Amnesia

I suppose they have already forgotten the incident at Stuart Pepper Middle School? (Gun brought into school.) Ironically enough, you will see that school's name again.


Review reveals 100 percent safety at county schools
By Jorena D. Faulkner
jorena@thenewsstandard.com

BRANDENBURG — School Safety Coordinator Jim DeVries unveiled the findings of a safety audit and the Kentucky Center for School Safety’s (KCSS) visit to Meade County High School and Stuart Pepper Middle School during a special meeting of the Meade County School Board held Tuesday at the Meade County Board of Education.

“When I was principal at the middle school, Columbine happened,” said Mitch Crump, Superintendent of Meade County schools. “With that being said, it was
a tragedy for all schools, and an alert and alarm for all of us. It really had an impact on me. “We have social concerns. Not only with school safety, but church safety, mall safety — wherever you go, there’s a possibility that the people in an open, free society can be hurt, can make you a target, can make you a victim
of crime, and we realize that. We still live in the greatest country in the world — the United States of America — but still, the schools are the safest environment that kids will be in.”

How do you like that last sick part? And what the fuck is he rambling on about? That sentence isn't coherent and the logic is completely flawed. But I'll give him this much, he sure sounds like the politician that he is. "The greatest country in the world!"

Oh well.
I certainly wouldn't listen to a complete stranger's opinion about where my child is safest. Especially not a complete stranger who believes a safe school includes a gun in the hands of a student.

What gets me are the parents who will also develop amnesia. They will forget all the various incidents and swallow the "100% safe" label. It's so eerily like Orwell's 1984 that it makes me want to vomit. I wonder why I can't find an online account of the Stuart Pepper Middle School gun incident. Maybe it was put down a memory hole.


What about the idiots who conducted the survey and completed the report? Kentucky Center for School Safety's website can be found here. This page lists the process of reviewing a school system to deem it "safe". One of which is-

review of the school’s safety data for a two-year period of time

Well.... that should certainly include the Stuart Pepper Middle School gun incident.

Hmmmm, I wonder if the News Standard remembers?