I found out today that KZ's school now has an armed guard at the entrance. I'm not sure what I think about this. In one sense, I have a sense of safety. In another, I don't like having a gun in a preschool environment.
KZ's school is located in a church, but not any old church. All day it offers services to the community in the form of AA meetings to soup kitchens. You name it, they do it. They even do things that I didn't know had a name ... like over eaters anonymous for teenagers. I'm sure there is a demographic, but I didn't realize that large of one on the Upper East Side. From day one, I was a bit skeptical of who could walk into her school because I was skeptical of who could walk into the church. Sorry, but I am talking about a place where I leave my four-year old all day. I can be skeptical.
But after the Sandy Hook Massacre, I went from skeptical to the point of panic attacks when I dropped her off.
I don't think that the average person going into that church will have a weapon of mass destruction. But, if someone who wanted to do a copy cat entered the school, the students and staff wouldn't stand a chance. Now we have a guard, checking all of our school issued IDs, with a gun at the entrance. I pray that that he stays very bored for the next six months.
And if not, that he is a good shot.
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