Schools, on Alert, Step Up Security Measures. Revelations that a computer disk found in Iraq had diagrams and photographs of some American schools have prompted school officials in several states to review security. By By NICK MADIGAN. [The New York Times > National]
This is at the least puzzling, and at most frightning. What was someone doing with diagrams of schools in Iraq? Or do they know who had possessed the disk? Are they sure it was not an American. Well, I would agree that while there appears to be no real threat, it is important to continue to take security precautions at schools. Our principal requires transpaprent bookbags, for example. Of course, one of the reasons schools have a difficult time providing sufficient security is that security is not really paid for. It's just handed down as yet one more duty on administrators and teachers, taking away time from the rest of their jobs, which is the business of educating. If school systems are to be serious about ensuring the safety of schools--which is something that ought to have been a priority all along, Sept. 11 notwithstanding--then they will have to pay for it. In dollars.
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