Police in Charleston County Schools?

Nearly $2 million of the Charleston County School District's operating budget will go towards police in every school if this school board has its way. We must be rolling in money. 

Instead of putting another teacher in each school and cutting class sizes, our children will have an armed officer to look up to. 

Any money spent on police is money taken away from teaching. "Local municipalities and county government" will need to find cuts to services. Evidently we now need to pay for security at the Taj Mahal. Remember all those attacks on administrators?

I don't either.

Oh, yes. Add another staff member, this one to plan for emergencies at an additional cost of $90,000 per year.

The proposals enlarge the bailiwick of present security director Michael Reidenbach. After all, if you ask a bureaucrat for solutions, you get more bureaucracy. Why wouldn't planning for emergencies be his job?

School resource officer in every elementary school: $1,800,000

District search team: $305,000

Emergency planner: $90,503

Security personnel at district office: $50,000

Private relief officers for elementary schools: $238,000

Private security officers to provide security checks at middle and high schools: $238,000

24-hour security operations center: $167,000

Surely you jest?