Parkland Students Are Sad Because School Now ‘Feels Like Jail’

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to school today. I can’t even imagine the range of emotions they’re feeling. I know as a kid, I would’ve been too afraid to return.

The school has implemented “strict security measures” to ensure the safety and security of returning students. You’d THINK that’s good news, but CNN isn’t framing it that way at all. The anti-gun network wants you to feel bad for the kids, because they feel like they’re in “prison.”

They led a national march. Now Parkland students return to a school they say “feels like jail.” https://t.co/Oy8hLNJPI6 pic.twitter.com/2G4HJ6iJ2Y

— CNN (@CNN) April 1, 2018

But these teenagers won’t be returning to a normal high school experience. Instead, they’ll be met with strict security measures which are intended to protect them from another mass shooting but have some students feeling as if they’ll be learning in a prison.

“Going to school is really so hard, and now it’s going to be so much worse,” said Isabelle Robinson, a senior. “A lot of the people I’ve talked to are dreading going back.”

Are you kidding? How is any of that a bad thing? If I were a student, I’d WELCOME the strict security measures.

The strict measures include clear backpacks, school IDs and a greater police presence. The school is also considering metal detectors, to which I say, “GOOD.”

The school district also says it’s considering whether to install metal detectors at the school’s entrances. A letter from Principal Ty Thompson sent to families on Friday said that step has not been taken yet.

“It feels like being punished,” Robinson told CNN. “It feels like jail, being checked every time we go to school.”

I’m sorry, I don’t understand these complaints AT ALL.

Many students, like Robinson, aren’t happy about the new security measures. She pointed out that the gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was not a student of Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting, so the new security measures that appear to target students are counterproductive.

“It’s like putting into place all these rules that wouldn’t have changed anything,” Robinson said.

Metal detectors wouldn’t change anything? More armed guards wouldn’t have changed anything? Are you serious? I don’t mean to sound insensitive, but if these kids want to talk about measures that wouldn’t have changed anything, turn on CNN or MSNBC. Demonizing the NRA and banning “assault weapons” REALLY wouldn’t have changed anything. The government failed.

Some students, like senior Demitri Hoth, recognize the need for new security policies but think the clear backpacks cross a line.

“I get it,” he said, but, “it feels like we are losing individualism. I understand why they are doing it, but if a person wants to bring a gun on campus, they just aren’t going to put it in their backpack.”

Bishop said he would support metal detectors but called the clear backpacks “an invasion of privacy.” He believes the increased security measures will make students “safer,” but that doesn’t mean they’ll be “safe.”

Wait wait. This kid’s remarks REALLY get me going.

The increased police presence has also given students of color at Stoneman Douglas a sense of unease, according to Kai Koerber, a junior. He said the school is being turned into “a police state.”

“Every day, students lose more and more freedoms at MSD,” Koerber said. “Students of color have become targets and white students have become suspects. We do not welcome the militarization of MSD. It is terrible to see our school lose control over the protection of their students and their families.”

Are you freaking kidding me? Sorry, but I have a REALLY hard time listening to activist kids talk about their “loss of freedoms” at MSD. The people participating in the March For Our Lives were asking the government to dismantle our Second Amendment rights. But police presence, metal detectors and clear backpacks in school? THAT’S where they draw the line, freedom-wise. But police state policies IRL? They’re cool with that.

CNN probably didn’t mean to do this, but it revealed why the activist kids are truly upset. The government never took anyone’s guns away.

But six weeks after the shooting and more than a week after the march, many of the students’ legislative goals have not been realized.

“There’s still that sense of melancholy, because what’s going to happen from this?” Bishop said. “It’s not like there was a magical bill that was passed that fixed all the things after the march. That didn’t happen.”

So let me get this straight– students would feel safe if the NRA didn’t exist? They’d feel safe if the government took steps to take guns away from law-abiding citizens? But metal detectors and armed guards just COMPLETELY freak them out?

None of this makes ANY sense whatsoever. Their immaturity is showing BIG time.

But, isn’t that what the Left wants America to look like? The people (inmates) have no weapons, only the government and police have weapons? CNN and the Left should be joyful about the comparison. Right? 🤔

— R. A. Douthitt (@RuthADouthitt) April 2, 2018

Gosh….how could this happen …oh wait…
I bet you can’t even see the irony, or your own hypocrisy, can you @CNN

— Deb V (@OrioleMom) April 2, 2018

Sounds like “common sense regulations” to me, but I understand what it’s like when others want to dictate which liberties you should be allowed to exercise.

Karma can be fickle.

— Sad Little King (@Sad_Little_King) April 2, 2018

To be fair, he drove past a jail so now he’s a “jail expert”. BTW, don’t disagree with him because then @CNN will accuse you of picking on children.

— Crypto-CrossFit Berga (@Testi_Testi_1_2) April 2, 2018

Why, this is what they, @davidhogg111, @Emma4Change, and the rest, asked for. This is what their political goal is for the rest of the country. Now, they can live with it.

— Ryan kist (@Ryankistnayr42) April 1, 2018

Yep. It sucks when innocent people are punished for the act of a total maniac, huh?

Wanted more government, got more government

— Write Winger (@RealWriteWinger) April 2, 2018

Hey, no fair! We want you to take away other innocent people’s rights away, not ours. Life lessons kicking in….about now….

— SouthernBelle#USA (@workinmamaw) April 1, 2018

You guys want a socialist country, you better get used to these kind of changes. If you get your wish, your entire lives will feel like prisons. Get used to losing your freedom now or stop giving it away by demanding more government!

— Amy Fox (@AFoxForChrist) April 2, 2018

So, did they want safer schools or did they just want to attack gun owners?

— Light Tac LLC (@LighttacLLC) April 2, 2018

It might sound insensitive, but that’s a question that needs to be asked at this point.