According to an article from CNN, funding for high-tech school security was cut by 1/3 during the Bush administration. Obama's education package, rather than replace the previously slashed security funding, is replacing it with funds to increase student-school involvement and to create an overall more close-knit school community that will deter violence.
What are your thoughts? Will close-knit school communities with increased counselors and violence prevention programs stop another "Columbine" from happening? Or is the threat of school violence so immediate and pressing that schools need officer patrols, metal detectors, and drug-sniffing dogs?
