{"id":190,"date":"2018-03-20T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:26:54","slug":"we-need-more-security-at-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/03\/20\/we-need-more-security-at-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need More Security at Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xljj9OCgIXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Popular media platforms\u00a0are trending with debates regarding gun-control. It seems like I can&#8217;t escape hearing about it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I feel that it&#8217;s important and relevant to the recent shootings. Demonstrated in the video is a man who tries to prove a point about the need for security by whipping out a knife at a parent-teacher association (PTA) meeting. The room is split with some people clapping in support of the man and others in shock arguing against the man. However, both groups are in consensus about more security at schools. What people fail to recognize is that there are some schools that have\u00a0been implementing prison-like security practices within the past decade. This is not a new phenomenon. Many high schools in my area have metal detectors at the entrances and implement a no-backpack policy.<\/p>\n<p>I come from a majority-minority\u00a0community in Southern California. I was accustomed to on-campus police officers with guns roaming the\u00a0school. It actually surprised me that some of my college peers had not experienced the level of security I had in school. I believe that racial constructions manifest in the way security measures\u00a0are implemented in schools around the country. People of color are constantly labeled as potential\u00a0criminals because of historical stereotypes set forth by colonizers. \u00a0I do believe security in schools is necessary but to make it the same for all schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular media platforms\u00a0are trending with debates regarding gun-control. It seems like I can&#8217;t escape hearing about it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I feel that it&#8217;s important and relevant to the recent shootings. Demonstrated in the video is a man who tries to prove a point about the need for security by whipping out a knife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}