Says school should also look at elementary security

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To the Medford School District Board: Again, the Medford School Board is considering changes and modifications to the Medford Senior High School. This time in office space and the school entrance, much of it to enhance and improve school safety and security for the office personnel, staff (including janitors, food service) and all the students. All this is an esteemed responsibility of the school board.

School security appears to have become a priority in school design and architecture. This is as it should be.

With rapid fire guns so common and prevalent, highcapacity clips or magazines, rapid reload (clip out and replaced in two seconds) gun reloaded and shooting again, these guns become extremely dangerous in the hands of someone disgruntled, angry, depressed with mental issues.

This appears to be the mental status, mood of so much of our American citizenship.

Think Sandy Hook where the very young were murdered, think Uvalde where middle elementary students were murdered both cases shot down and slaughtered. With so many other locations scattered across the nation, stores, churches, fast food places, concerts, entertainment spots for all sexual orientations, after all these and more were terrorized by the use of guns and violence, security has become a must wherever across the nation. It can never be compromised.

Because of so much of this, strong security has become necessary, safety for all staff and students is required, they expect it, citizens expect it.

What should never be expected must now be expected.

We all know chain link fences may deflect some bullets but not many.

Yet while outside at recess and school lunch break burning off excess pent-up energy under supervision from all those much taller who stand above the crowd, this is all that’s between a disgruntled, angry, depressed person with mental issues and young kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students at one of our Medford Area District Schools.

Just a chain link fence. Access to this location is easy and open. There is nothing to truly deter harms way. The shooting gallery is open.

While the chance of anything so tragic is extremely remote why the considered spending at Medford Senior High?? I would imagine any incident there just as remote.

— Walter Tomczyk, Dorchester