Newsey Quote: Pennsylvania State Police
“Obviously these schools are not like most public schools that would have some type of security.”
- Jack Lewis of the Pennsylvania State Police, commenting on the shooting at a small Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
Quick comment on my part: am I the only person who’s bothered by the fact that a school without any security is considered as peculiar?
I once went to a school, where after I’d stopped, they put up metal detectors to stop knives and guns from entering the school.
Ironically, a few years later, I get a job in the very same building and offices; the school has closed and a large company has moved in. Hooray!
well what I think the copper ment was not security in the sense of metal detectors and armed dogs but more like an electronic locking/intercom system. My high school had doors that were locked from the outside so any visitor had to buzz in to be let in and then go to the front office to sign in. The troopers idea probably was that this type of electronic system wouldn’t be around in an Amish school, thus making it harder to keep track of who was going in and out.