In recent weeks the Peace & Justice Center has supported the activism of Bangor-area students calling for an end to gun violence in their schools and the community. The students have come forward with powerful stories of the emotional trauma they experience hearing the stories of mass shootings in schools and living with regular active-shooter drills. Separate from the fact that our society is apparently willing to keep our children in locked, armed compounds in order to guarantee the “right” of a small minority of the population to carry deadly assault weapons, and separate from the fact that “school security” has become a very expensive industry with limited data on effectiveness, we need to be aware that adding “security” to schools actually creates another serious threat to at least some groups of students. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, those who have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect are much more likely to be isolated and punished in schools.
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Contributed, Bangor Daily News
Wed, 05/09/2018 - 9:28am
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