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Carlvena lives in a fantasy land. Perhaps she overlooked the three Southwest student in jail for attempted murder.
They may not have done the crime in school but I see no reason to believe they WOULD NOT have done it in the school. Now before you bleeding heart liberals start up. I know they haven't been found guilty ETC.

I wonder what level of violence must be reached before Tasers would be required? As mentioned, there have been two incidents so far this year. Three young students stand accused of the most violent of crimes. Knowing that officers are so armed will not be a deterrent to all, but it will be a deterrent to some.

The folks who have kids in school and are against Tasers, obviously have bad kids. Otherwise, they wouldn't be worried about their kids being tased.
The school board members who don't have kids in school are just trying to get attention. It is completely ridiculous to waste the time of Chief Fealy & Sheriff Barnes talking about this.
People who are against the tasers should have to go spend some time at school and see the hooligans that teachers and administrators have to deal with.

Let's just let Mary Southern take the place of our SRO's. She doesn't think tasers are needed, then let's see how she handles situations! My guess is, she's be singing a different song within a week. She doesn't have a clue!

I love the photo here. "Two MEN and a wimp."

The thing that bothers me the MOST over this issue is everyone talks about SRO's being armed with tasers. Uh, HELLO, ALL of the Deputies and Police Officers are armed with Tasers!!!!! Not just the SRO's!!! If your sweet little johnny or janie did something wrong OUTSIDE of the school setting that called for the use of a taser to control the situation, would everyone be screaming for the tasers to be taken away from ALL OFFICERS? I THINK NOT!! STOP focusing on the school setting, it's LIFE in and out of the schools that require officers to be armed with Tasers NOT poor innocent students. I have been tased (voluntarily) and it made a believer out of me!! I would not do anything that would cause an officer of the law to feel they needed to use a taser on me. Hey Deena, Sandra and Amos how about you taking a 5 second RIDE???? Maybe it'll make believers out of you too!

Note to concerned mom Mary Southern: Remove your head from the sand - our schools unfortunately are not always safe places for students or teachers. A lot of our "kids" are routinely robbing, stealing and killing. Being at school doesn't remove them from their criminal mindset. You wouldn't want your child living in an environment where the community's medical doctors only had the means to treat sore throats and ear aches. No, you would want them to be able to treat all kinds of illnesses even though the more serious ones aren't as common. You should have the same aproach towards your law enforcement officers. Encourage them to come equipped for the serious offenses, even though they might not occur that often. Understand? The only glitch in this comparison is that the bad "kids" are sadly just about everywhere you turn in our school system, just waiting for an opportunity to do something bad or stupid. I want our officers equipped with the necessary tools to keep MY kids and their teachers safe. Thanks to Sheriff Barnes and Chiefs Fealy and Bellamy for holding their ground on this issue.

Agan inept reporting by our left wing, liberal piece of fish wrap. They can't write an article with out sharing their blantant bias. Closing comment "

Thought this was interesting....I took this from a blog on WFMY concerning our three wonderfuls from SWG High who left school to rob and shoot someone. This is from a student and is REALLY heartbreaking..

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wow just half the stuff you people say, and none of you really sit in class with any of these guys! how ever i do!!! and if you had to sit in class and here half the stuff these guys talk about, you would want them gone to. It would take about 30 mins every day for our teachers to start class because these guys and other students would sit in class and talk about drugs, and sex and shooting people. Im glad they are gone now because today was a very nice day in class, we need to keep the thugs out of southwest and other schools, our school was going good into about last year thank GOD i'm a senior and about done with school, i don't feel safe at all going to school no more. The staff and police don't do anything about what goes on in our school but send them to BIP what does that do to them, they want to go sit in BIP its like a free class for them to do what ever they want to do.I hope these guys stay there in jail, thats were they belong!

NO TASERS! Parents who spend time in all of the GCS schools know the volume of what goes on in schools and as long as adults have blinders on regarding this one day a child will die as a result of taser usage.

Lets see how long it takes for a student in this district who is standing near a SRO when they aim the taser and hit one of your children who are standing near by.

"The board, like the community, is split over the issue."

Uh...right. The board is split due to disingenuous politics. The community is very much on the side of law enforcement. The very few against tasers show up at these meetings, whine, complain, show ignorance, and get all the press from an equally disingenuous newspaper.

This newspaper is forced, however, to report the many crimes that occur each day and night in the triad (albeit with the bs "incomplete description of suspect" tag line). These are committed by a large proportion of 14-20 year old "kids" that haven't yet been permanently kicked out of Guilford County schools. They have to show up at school once in a while to keep their attendence up. The same suspects that commit plain old, mean and nasty street crimes are walking through the hallways and occassionally sitting in class with honest students. They don't pay attention to the teacher though, they are planning the next theft or robbery from another honest student during or after school hours. This is what they do, whether they are in school or running the streets.

Officers need to have tasers available in dealing with these "kids" no matter where they are. Plain and simple, end of story. Politics can't change the reality of crime and criminals in our community or on school campuses, no matter how badly some people want to portray a "split" on the issue.

If your child behaves in school, you have nothing to worry about - THEY WILL NOT BE TASED.

Look at who's complaining about the officers carrying tasers - I think you'll find a common theme.

It saddens my heart to read all the negative comments coming from adults and we complain and blame the kids for everything that is wrong in our schools. Our schools are ran by adults. Some of these adults are having sex with our kids, some of them are drug dealers, such as the most recent Science teacher from Ragsdale HS. I do not recall much communication or news media coverage about her. Is she a thug? I am a parent who has children in our GCS. I am a very involved parent in our schools. So, I see that school environment is not what is should be and that things are out of control. But, I can assure you that is not just with the children. Yes, the children are talking and acting inappropriate in the schools, but I also see some of the teachers acting and talking inappropriate in our schools. Children are lead by adults whether at home or at school, so we need to stop blaming our children for what the adults are not doing. I am not in agreement of SRO's or Tasers in our schools, because that has not controlled or corrected the problems that are in our schools, but yet school funds continue to pay for their presence. I believe that if we take those same funds and used them to implement programs in all of our schools that would address some of the issues that these kids have, and if we stop the teaching for the passing of standardized test, and if start holding parents accountable for not participating in their child's education because that is neglect, and if we hold the school system accountable for hiring incompetent teachers who put all the blame on kids behavior to keep the focus off of them not doing the job they were hired to do. And I say all of this because I have talked to some of the kids in our schools that the communities call "bad". They are not bad at all. They are angry and frustrated. They just need someone to love, care, and listen to them. And in my day, if you did not get it at home you could sure get it at school. And if you were blessed to get the attention from both home and school life was great. But, when you kids going without the basic needs of care and concern, we get anger and acting out. And finally, when people in our community only think about their kids and not ALL the kids in our community from all backgrounds, races, and religions, we have an even bigger problem. So, I encourage everyone who is reading these comments to stop writing and start reaching out to help one of those children less fortunate than yours or mine. That is all they want and need and I believe we all will see a change in our schools and our communities.