Armed Guards In Schools

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Police are now more than ever more likely to be seen in a school protecting the nation’s youth. This is a logical step to preventing violent acts from happening, but to students it has aggravated their learning environment. ”A 2011 study in the journal Youth Society found that the presence of armed guards in schools made many students feel less secure at school.” (1) Having guards on campus has become counterproductive to what its initial intent was supposed to be. As a general rule students shouldn’t be afraid in their own school. This can cause their education to suffer if a student is more focused on what the guard might do or is doing than on their school work. This is interfering with their right to have an education and could be affected

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