The day before the school shooting in Connecticut, Las Lomas High School held an intruder drill.The students were wonderful; they knew exactly what to do. The procedures call for teachers to step into the hallway, grab any students who may be there and bring them into the room, then lock the door. There were no students in the hallway where I was, but I still had to lock the door from outside the classroom.

We know (now) that to get their “solar money” everything else was put on a back burner beginning back about two years before 2010 C was even mentioned.

As for 2002 Measure C, and Lawrences response: “With respect to door hardware, the 2002 Plan called for the retrofitting of no less than 50% of existing non-compliant door hardware with ADA compliant hardware. In selecting that compliant hardware, we elected to use a ‘Columbine’ type door hardware that could be locked down from the interior of the classroom. While we endeavored to expand the percentage of door hardware actually retrofitted as we progressed through the five year Measure C program, there still are at least 43 sites which have not been fully retrofitted with ‘Columbine’ type devices.” Plan was for at least 50% of 55 school sites. But 43 remain incomplete–or not done at all?

However, just from 2002 measure C, Dent got well over $4.2million of upgrades, Willow Creek $3.6million, Loma Vista nearly $8million, PHEC $8million.

Now with 2010 they are getting even more upgrades, but school site security is still on a back burner….

Lawrence wasn’t here yet when 2002 C was “wrapping up” but someone else in charge of deciding what was more important, and where the money got spent is still here—double dipping—and still running the show!