Student Safety Urban Educators Style

The news from Lancaster, PA, is heartbreaking. Especially chilling when you've been to that beautiful part of the country. Seen the simple way of life.

But as always, when the horrific happens, there are those who have all the answers as to why it didn't have to happen. Why it couldn't happen on their watch. In this AP article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217730,00.html we hear from the "experts." Translate that: people who keep our urban schools safe. Because we all know there is never a school shooting in an urban school. The violent occurences in the last few months couldn't have happened in places with metal detectors and armed security guards.

One of the alleged experts cited an urban attitude in which guns are looked at with greater suspicion than in rural areas, where you have "that God and country thing, the right to bear arms." Yeah. That's the problem. That "God and country thing." Because we all know, one of the most dangerous attitudes in the US today is that "God and country thing." Leads to violence everytime. And, of course, there isn't a problem with the right to bear arms in our metropolitan areas. Months go by without a single shooting. That only happens in the pastoral settings of places like Lancaster.

I'm sure every one room school house in Lancaster County will have security cameras and metal detectors installed next week. Yeah, in a community that shuns the use of modern amenities...like ELECTRICITY! Do we blame the community for their religious views. Does that qualify as "that God and country thing"?

While I take no issue with common sense practices for ours and our children's safety, we can't guarantee it. We can't always keep people from doing bad things, no matter how careful we are or how much prevention we use. The bottom line is that we don't have control. We can do our part, but sometimes evil still wins. Only one person can guarantee our safety, and He chooses sometimes to teach us in other ways.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.
Psalm 127:1