That sounds great, but how about putting a police officer in every school like Marlboro Township is doing?

"Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teen agers"
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/teen_drivers/teendrivers_factsheet.html
Yet many of the same parents advocating protecting their children in school by having an armed guard at the door are also buying those same children expensive cars and sending them out to be killed at a far greater percentage than any other cause of death. Do we not see some mixed message here? Sure, this senseless murder of 20 school children in Ct. was a terrible tragedy. What I see i happening is that the gun lovers of the country are trying to avert their eyes to the real problem of too many guns in the wrong hands by singling out historically, one of the safest places for our children, the schools, as a red herring and demand that more guns be in place to protect something that doesn't need protection. If you are really serious about protecting the children, take away their cars. Take away their cell phones which are shown to be the latest scourge of auto accidents. Demand that the police patrol the roads, put down their own cell phones and enforce the no cell phone use while driving. That will save our kids more than putting a armed policeman in every school.

Hey great idea take away the cars!!! I'm sure you didn't have a care when you were 18 ...

If its not cost prohibitive, I have no issue with increased security at schools (at least for the time being)... There still needs to be a ban on semi-automatic weapons.. Even an armed police officer stands no chance against an AR-15!

I agree with Tracey, we need an officer in every school. The township allows off duty police at Gary Michaels to protect the jewlery with township police car and in uniform. Jewlery can be replaced our children cannot. It may not stop a madman but it at least gives the children a chance. Something the Newtown kids did not have. I do not wanna get into cars kill more people than guns etc because if there is a motor vehicle accident it is just that-an accident. Hopefully inforseeable which has nothing to do with what we are need to do here

I'm so glad that I no longer have school-age children. Now, they are not only in danger from gun-toting nuts but now are in additional danger from police officers who may accidentally fire their weapons. Very, very bad idea. Repeal the second amendment.

hiring two ( almost ) qualified police officers to patrol all manalapan schools is a good start in the right direction but not enough. i think we should consider the steps that marlboro is taking. we need to take drastic measures to protect our kids ..we cant wait for the government to step in..our kids lives are too precious

pc
Get the manalapan police out of wawa and dunlin doughnuts and let them spend some time patrolling the schools

pat
the Manalapan police concentrate too much on writing tickets for minor traffic infractions. Im not saying that we should ignore theses violations but how about having some of these officers patrol the schools

These people that want police in our schools are in panic mode they need to relax and calm down.

Great news. During school hours so much of Manalapan township's residents are concentrated in our public schools. Let's continue to have police presence to deter criminals from our school's and help report and deter drug crimes.

It's a deterrent and will make a difference. They will do something else perhaps but a police presence will deter for sure.

Biggest waste of Taxpers money.Who ever brought up the Idea should be fired. OVER REACTION If you are going to do it do it right .You are giving the residents a false sense of security.Imposible to properly cover all the schools with two part timers and its awaste