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( 13 year old Diego, whose head struck a concrete pillar after he was punched by another boy at a
Moreno Valley middle school, has died of his injuries. Courtesy of CBS Los Angeles and YouTube.
Posted on Sep 25, 2019.
After yelling at the TV, my wife was office and facility managers have
able to calm me down enough so that been doing to 'deter, prevent and de-
I could rationalize why I was so angry. fend' against violence in our schools.
I soon realized, that it really wasn’t
the principal’s fault in responding the
way he did, because he really had no
idea as to what security is or isn’t,
even though he is responsible for
the safety of all his students, teach-
ers, administrators, visitors and more.
He bought into the 'sales pitch': "If
one camera, resource officer or
gun is good then two must be
better and three… well; and as
long as there’s robust access con-
trol and we can keep the threat
out and we’ll all be okay."  
Unfortunately, he had been doing
what so many other administrators, The truth is he was trying to solve
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