Israeli officials say since the program was implemented, no child has been killed in a school.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=680
Millions Diverted From School Guards UJC officials acknowledge less than half of $20 million raised for security in Israel now slated for that purpose.
Stewart Ain - Staff Writer
Some are questioning what will happen to remaining $12 million earmarked for protecting Israeli schoolkids.
Esther Hecht
Only $8 million of the $20 million raised from American Jews to provide security guards for Israel’s schoolchildren will be used for that purpose, The Jewish Week has learned.
“Something doesn’t smell good,” said Hilik Goldstein, a spokesman for the Union of Local Authorities, which is hiring the guards for Israel’s 124 municipalities and who revealed the funding cutback.
Hoffman stressed that authorities in Israel, not the UJC, made the decision to cut back on the $20 million security guard program. But Goldstein said Israeli parents would have a hard time accepting that decision in light of the July 30 bombing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that killed nine.
“After that bombing, we heard from police sources in Israel that Palestinian [terrorists] intended to do some activities against children,” Goldstein said. “A lot of parents went to the local authorities and asked them to ensure the safety of their children.”
“We don’t know where they [terrorists] are going to hit next and we have to do the maximum to protect our children and make sure that everything is OK,” she said.
“The high schools have their own guards and there are a lot of teachers who walk around with weapons,” she added. “But in the kindergartens, there are 38 kids with two unarmed women. They are more vulnerable [to attack].”
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Group Advocates Armed Parent Patrols for U.S. Schools
By Jim Burns
CNP Senior Staff Writer
March 27, 2001
(CNSNews.com) - A senior citizens' group is offering what it calls a "safe schools initiative," based on an Israeli model, in response to the recent spate of school shootings in the United States.
The Dallas, Texas-based group calls itself "Seniors United Supporting the Second Amendment."
Executive Director John Bender said SUSSA will offer scholarships for courses in handgun safety and the use of guns in defensive situations to five volunteers, selected by the first public school in the United States that adopts the Israeli model for protecting the school from violence.
In 1974, Israel began arming parents and grandparents who volunteered to patrol local schools. Israeli officials say since the program was implemented, no child has been killed in a school.
Some Israeli schools continue to use armed parent- and grandparent-patrols, while other schools have hired armed guards for protection. The Israeli government also requires groups going on school field trips to have one armed guard for every 10 students. Many parents double as guards and chaperones on such field trips, and most of those parents have had army training and know how to use a gun.
According to SUSSA, if the Israeli program been in place at U.S. schools, recent shootings, including the two in California, might not have happened. "SUSSA urges every school in America to implement the Israeli safety program before there is another school shooting," the group said.
"We want to make our schools safe and stop the killings. Israel has a program that is tested and proven to work. By adopting the Israeli model we can stop the tragic school shooting and protect our Constitutional right to own and carry firearms.
"We will also gain from having parents and grandparents involved and visible in our schools. This will cut down on the bullying and tormenting that we now see as a major problem in our schools," Bender said.
The idea has received support from the 60-Plus Association, a senior citizens rights group.
"Clearly, it would be beneficial to all students to have senior citizens, parents and grandparents patrolling the halls of schools. This would be a good use of senior citizen know-how and manpower," said Jim Martin, president of the 60-Plus Association.
Handgun Control, Inc. had no immediate comment on the proposal.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200103\NAT20010327a.html
kinda like I was saying to another freeper earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231973/posts?page=84#84
I like the israeli model for school safety. Getting kids used to the use and appearance of firearms as part of their American Heritage is a good thing afterall. And the guns could be used to repel or slow down bad guys, while the reinforcements are coming.
I agree with you.
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each of those deserve their own threads.
you should post them.
very interesting approaches to school security, and I don't think WE should wait till OBL and his walking army of pig humpers try it here, to incorporate a plan of defense like the Israelis have.
they are seeking targets of opportunity where we are lax.
we are lax in keeping the perimeters of protection around our kids. wake up call. they are (it seems from this disk report in the paper) even now, working on their operational plan for an american Beslan incident. Or several dozen of them. We need to up our action plans. I am afraid however we won't until ...
you ought to repost those as articles on homeland defense.