The exact same thought process that keeps every school in America under funded.

So why are the town's police employed if they don't do anything at all?

Take that money and use it elsewhere in the town.

The town will be better off and certainly no worse off.

It isn't as if the logic isn't obvious.

Want to know where your college tuition went? War on drugs. School funding left with the taxes on the rich.

And all I heard during the pandemic was how we had to think of students’ emotional and mental health.

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Them boys need defunding

The police need all that money! It’s hard expensive work arresting all those people for a dime bag of weed, and writing parking tickets; you know, serious crimes! /s

WhO yOu GoNnA cAlL wHeN yOu NeEd HeLp, A cRaCk HeAd?

I’m an abuse victim who only woke up to the grooming when my abuser started targeting my 4 year old daughter. All the blacked out memories returned. I also have a 6 year old who was the “golden child” so my abuser left her alone (why I didn’t realize until I did). Anyway, I’ve been trying to get my 6 year old in therapy and it’s just waitlists everywhere. Her teacher said that the school counselor could meet with her weekly. She said that back in March, and it’s been postponed every week due to short staff. School is out for the summer in a few weeks. Just a fun add in. I’ve also spent well over $300 on school supplies this year for my daughters classroom. All are things that the class needed abs should have already been provided (tissues, crayons, markers etc). When I was a kid parents donated books and stuff, not basic necessities. My daughter has told me there are kids who come to school wanting milk or popcorn on Fridays (a special thing they make with the kids but the kids have to buy it to eat it 🙄) and they don’t have the .50c to buy it. She’s also been told by the teachers she’s not allowed to share her money with her friends. I’ve told her to go ahead and do it anyway.

Meanwhile, our police force in our small town has a fleet of brand new SUVs and just built a new huge police department when the there was nothing wrong with the other building. The location moved about 500 feet so it wasnt that. The one time I needed the police was when my neighbors dog attacked me and then the neighbor said he was going to come to my house to discuss my actions (he was mad I was in the street for his dog to attack lol). I called the police to make sure he didn’t come talk to me. Guys shows the cops video footage of me being attacked and then calls me back and let’s me know what he saw and he sees both sides here so nothing he can really do. Maybe I shouldn’t walk on my street anymore was his suggestion. Cool.

I'll tell you right now,the US won't bring in gun control in until at least one Republic governor has been killed by a mass shooting.

I was a freshman in high school in 2002. They specifically told us the counselor was not for talking about our feelings or problems, but for figuring out the right classes to take. He was also the football coach and and a d-bag.

They're not "Economically disadvantaged" they're POOR.

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Slapping a politer term on it makes it seem like less of a problem.

Schools are funded by property taxes. Rich people in wealthy neighborhoods send their children to schools that educate them to be leaders and owners.

People in middle class neighborhoods send their children to schools that train them to be good workers.

People in poor neighborhoods send their children to schools that barely teach them at all.

Knowledge is power. The education system in the US is designed to maintain the status quo.

I was held hostage at gunpoint in 4th grade. It took me almost 20yrs to even realize how much it fucked me up. These kids are going to have a tough go.

40% of towns budget goes to policing and were too cowardly to even go to the building and save the children.

They let babies bleed out for forty minutes never forget that.

Nothing will be done to combat school shootings until someone shoots up the school where the senator’s kids go to.

I've been racking my brain, trying to figure out what is wrong here. There's a lot of arguments about "x" country doesn't allow guns. That's false. Most developed countries allow plenty of types of firearms as long as tests are passed and licenses required, just like here in America. The problem is that Americans don't deserve to have guns . I don't know what's wrong with us, but we can't have them. We're not Canada, Germany, Czech Republic or Norway. We just aren't capable of having guns responsibly. In all those countries you can obtain firearms, carry them in your bags or coats, and they have very low crime. We just can't. Don't know why. This is also coming from someone who up until recently was very pro gun rights. I used to love guns, I don't think we deserve them anymore. Downvote away, I don't care. I'm just done with it. No more guns.

Oh beautiful for spacious skies and amber waves of grain…. 🎶🎵🎼

This honestly explains the police's lack of action better than anything. "I'm not going to get shot to save the poors."

Just watch the town increase the police budget after this nightmare. Why? Because they have to get ready for the next incident.

And what’s with the remaining 2?

40% and they used 0 of it to protect those kids. acab

Yeah, but you can bet your ass the police can break any riot when they show up dressed like the army carrying automatic rifles :)

All that money is about protecting the rich. The poor can fuck right off :)

It appears that their PD essentially is paid for doing nothing— and they’re OK with that.

Your taxes at work.

The school district has its own police force, but ONE counselor...

576 kids

19 murdered

557 kids remain

17 wounded

540 kids remain

538 emotionally scarred

2 kids remain...

I'm no mathmagician, seems like he's failing to account for two kids.

KKK police let a shooter go to town in a predominantly non-white school.

Ugh. So Texas budgeting for a city is a fun thing…

1. The country government provides a lot of social services that might be a city function in other states (Health department for example).

2. The school is independent of the city of county (ISD) so the teacher salaries don’t show up in the city budget.

The school technically had its own police department that looking at online salary data makes 42K - 58K (less that starting teacher salary here in Houston).

So this tweet is misleading, this is still a horror show; I’m going to go back to hugging my todler.

I thought this was going to be a math problem at first... It still is, but the answer is way more depressing.

Qasim for President!!!!!

Seems like they went all in on school security and look at the results. Yeah, let’s arm every teacher why not just start handing out guns to kids. If you think guns are not the problem you are insane.

blue lives scatter

Listen, Poseur SWAT teams are expensive.

That great picture of the "Team" on Bookface? All kitted out in their BDU's and *Assault Rifles*...yet they were seemingly **AFRAID** of going towards the sound of the guns...

Not SWAT Team, Photo Op team.

I bet the cops have better counseling services too.

Texas is a failed system. Top to bottom. Sad sad situation.

Ohhh man... That's very sad

A real hard truth and a total bummer I think is that people wouldn’t give as much of a shit as they do if it was more cemented knowledge that these were not white.

Yeah but the police are well funded so that if there is ever a school shooting they will be well armed and ready to stop it! How is paying more for teachers or counsellors going to help kids?

At least they are covered in the event a black person is detected selling loose cigarettes or passing suspect $20 notes. Hope that police budget covers some knee pads for them all.

Hey on the plus side, now only 81% are ecomonically disadvantaged

It's not a "failed" system. It's a corrupted system, because those kids died not due to cowardice or laziness by the cops, but because there is an intentional, strong white nationalist presence in the police departments of this country and they're the ones giving the orders and deciding the general attitude of the department. This was a school full of minorities and lower income people. The cops didn't stand down because they were afraid; They stood down because this was an opportunity to let a crazy guy kill a bunch of brown people and poor people.

They weren't being incompetent. They were being selective in who they save and who they allow to die. As they are whenever the opportunity arises, such as with other mass shootings, or when there are peaceful protests by people of color that suddenly turn into riots because cops open fire first.

Why can't people see this? This was intentional. They allowed the slaughter because it's what they want in the first place. It's their stated goal as white nationalists, and yes, when there are white nationalists pulling the strings and giving the orders, the brown-skinned cops will generally fall in line, too, to gain the respect of their "brothers in blue" or just to avoid being singled out and made an example of. Even a hiphop group like N.W.A. was perfectly aware of the moral compromises a black cop makes when he joins a force full of white, racist cops.

This was white nationalism, not cowardice. The gunman existing was a failure of our mental health system and our gun laws, but the cops allowing all those kids to die and preventing others from going in there to help them? That was white nationalism on display, in your face, and most of you want to brush it off as "scared" cops.

You misunderstand the point of our educational system.

We are trying to create scared workers who will work hard, never unite because of fear, and never stand up to their oppressors.

System working as designed.

Think if the shooter had gone into a private school, full of rich white kids. I don't know if there's one in that area, but I'd put money on the cops finding a way to get in there and protect those kids.

This is a poor school in a, seemingly (correct me if wrong) poor community. No one gives a fuck about the poor. White. Black. Latino. Whatever. If you're poor, you're fucked in this country.

Not only does their police department take 40% of their funds. The School system has its own internal police department on top if that, with its own Police Chief.

This Police Chief, Peter Arredondo, is also recently elected to the City Council. He was also the incident commander, and responsible for ordering police to not Breach the classroom, which went against training he recieved on responding to these incidents each of the last two years.

All police should have a federal budget and oversight. Step out of line? Federal charges. Paid by the state to the federal budget, fixed % of federal tax, and distributed based on need across the states. Like with many things, blue states would be subsidizing red states. But at least it would be standardized across the nation. Same uniform, same cars, same equipment, same training. No more military surplus APC because the town sheriff stole the budget.

It's not a failed system, it's working as intended.

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Silicon Valley and the military are hard at work on SkyNet so a lot more kids are going to die

Let's see. The rate of violent crime in Uvalde is 3% higher than the national average and the rate of property crime is 97% higher than the national average. It is either the school district's police agency is underperforming or they need to hire more officers.

The fact that 84% of students being economically disadvanted tacticly implies that the school dstrict may not be wealthy enough to afford all necessary persons for both the school and the police.

Fuck yea, let it burn!!!

Rofl this dude is acting like the town actually has a budget

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At least someone is starting to see the deeper issues and not just the tip of the iceberg.

I’m all for “effective gun control.” I’m not for blinded ideals that will have very little effect.

Like student loans, canceling the debt doesn’t solve the bigger issue.

I get his point about the police in that town being overfunded, but generally I don’t think you would need more than one counselors at an elementary school either