When fundi kids are shot by tasers, will this end the fundy R love affair

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1130213

Duval County to equip school officers with Tasers
Associated Press


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police officers working in Duval County middle and high schools will soon carry Taser guns, joining the ranks of several other counties where the stun guns are issued to school resource officers.

Some school officials are surprised by the action, saying they were never told by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office that it planned to issue stun guns to the officers assigned to most middle and high schools.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has signed a $1.8 million contract with Taser International to buy 1,800 Tasers over the next two years.

Two of the School Board's seven members, Brenda Priestly Jackson and Kris Barnes, said they already have concerns with police presence in schools and are opposed to equipping the officers with Tasers.

"Can't a couple of adults take down a child?" Barnes said.
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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10590...

[Misunderestimator]

1. Oh, please, please, please help me escape from Florida

I'm sure I'll see the neighborhood community security guard with a taser very soon.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. I guess it depends on how dangerous a place we're talking about.

Now, if said school is likely to have kids with guns, fine. Otherwise, wtf are they thinking?!

[htuttle]

3. No, it won't

Fundies already beat their children. I doubt if they'd care if they were tasered when they are 'bad'.

[JackintheGreen]

7. Are you kidding?!?

I've watched for four years in an urban school. Those kids BELONG to their parents, and their parent can do whatever they want to their kids (I had a parent ask if he could beat his son in front of the class, to embarass him, what?), but don't you DARE lay a hand on MY child.

[InvisibleBallots]

4. Why not use cattle prods and be done with it?

Why not?

[Zero Gravitas]

5. Homeschooling

the hard core Fundies homeschool their kids so they won't be exposed to any post-Enlightenment ideas.

[XanaDUer]

6. Duval County is a republican shithole

Even for FL, it's bad. BAD.

But, a lot of the kids in Duval County PS are African-American.

Duval County is just a FUNHOUSE of stupidity, though.


They privatized the PS bus system and ended up with people who dumped a bunch of Muslim kids off a bus and stranded them.

Another one was taking kids to her house to watch TV, play video games, and smoke pot.

Yup. It sucks.

[Solly Mack]

8. Man that sounds tempting

just joking (a leedle)

If they were tasering white kids in "upper class" neighborhoods, tasers would be snatched out of schools faster than Ann Coulter could snag lightning.

[msanthrope]

9. 1,800 Tasers? Does this seem a bit much? n/t