WTF?

[discreet_chaos]

Last night, I picked-up my local biweekly and this morning when I was reading through the "Legal Notices", I saw that the local school district is advertising for bids from Drug Dog Services. If you read through their 2001-2002 Accreditation Application (p. 12), you'll see that it's funded by the "Safe and Drug Free Schools" program. And, staying

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[litos]

Is the drug dog full time? Or is the contract for occasional usage

[discreet_chaos]

Mr Gonzales reduced his bid from $400 to $350, so I guess it's an on-call kind of thing. Hopefully, a local teacher will correct me, if I'm wrong. Though judging from voices_speak's comment, he may have given them a per-visit price. I haven't actually looked at the bid packet and really don't have any more specific information than I've given

[litos]

See.... the cameras I am against. Why should students who are doing nothing wrong have to be videotaped in one of their public institutions? It would be acceptable to have them on at night to prevent break-ins.

Metal detecters are shitty as they criminalize every child who has to walk through one. Practically speaking, if there is a proven reason for them, I am not going to get up in arms about it. But, I don't like them.

Random locker searches.... how fucked up it that? At any time your belongings can be spread out all over the hallway floor.

A dog that walks through the halls, sniffing lockers for dope, is only going to lead to lockers with dope in them being opened. This would prevent the "need" for random searches and would be much more effective in keeping drugs out of schools.

[voices_speak]

I don't know anything about how the Deming school district handles things but I know that we had a drug dog go through the entire Mid-High and High School about once every three months or so.

[discreet_chaos]

Three or four times a year? Yikes. Like I said, I came of age during the decriminalization era and though there wasn't a lot of dope being smoked in the main courtyard, all around the outside of the building was fair game. Heck, the first time I ever saw a bag of marijuana was on a school bus, but nobody really cared, back in the day and we never had any kind of investigations.

My youngest sister's class was subjected to a couple of those things where they plant a young-looking cadet or a criminal justice major, but they never had any drug dogs. She lost several of her friends because she's of the generation, where Yupdogs would commit their kids to private asylums, if they got in trouble or out of line.

BTW) I just got to Deming for the first time, a couple of weeks ago. One of the things we noticed was that there was a large police presence. It looks like a real law and order town, so I guess the three or four times a year thing makes sense.

[eparchos]

In this case, it could be a local thing to benefit Kenny Gonzales (which is actually an OK thing, he's a really cool guy who works his butt off. Note that he's a cop and *I* like him) However, I hate the War on Drugs and all that nonsense. It's a waste of my tax money, IMO.

As a teacher, my input

[savya]

I teach at the local Middle School