I gotta ask. Okay. We have once again a legislation mandating something to happen, right? Where's the money coming from? It's not There's no We're talking let's just play with some let's just play with some math, right? Ten thousand school districts. Right? Forty hours a week, roughly a school school week. Right? And then we're talking what thirty, forty, fifty dollars an hour for an office. Let's just say fifty thousand annually. That's on the low end. For that school? Right? Yeah. Let's just say fifty thousand annually times ten thousand. Right. Just making sure I got the notes. That's five hundred million dollars. Just making sure I had all the zeros right. It's five hundred million dollars on one resource officer for every school and time. That's it. That is proven not to be as effective as behavioral threat assessment and management. Barclin had an officer on campus. Yeah. And he did not respond the way that he should. And I He's already had a police force. He's already had a bunch of people there. Okay. Right. I mean, so here's the thing. We have once again our legislation in Texas turns around and says, Hey, this has gotta happen. Yep. Right? Where where's that money coming from? Where where where are these schools gonna come up with five hundred million dollars? They're not. They're they're not. Everyone talks about Teachers are not being paid enough. Now there are some districts where teachers are being taken care of and a hats off to those districts. That Barbara Hill definitely is one of them. Barbara Hill. Y'all doing something right over there. But there's but that's the truth. But but there are some, in the Metroplex area, in the Dallas Fort Worth and Netflix area where they have just opened up their wallets, and they have, made sure that those teachers are take are taken care of and those administrators as well. But sometimes where is the rest of that money gonna come from? Because because you have those resources within the district that those teachers use to make sure that they're successful. And then you have some district six. They're it it really turns into the halves and have nots because you have to look at Barbara Hill in order for Barbara Hill to pay that money. Look at their tax structure. All those all of those plants. So that money comes from Yeah. But the same argument could be made about Texas City. Well. I mean, Texas city's tax structure is is similar to the Barbara Hill, but but Texas City doesn't pay what Barbara Hill pays. Barbara Hill do I think we should? You guys are getting you're all getting lost in the weeds in two specific school districts. Let's talk about across the board. Right? Mean, we have school districts that can't afford to add a couple cameras to a to a campus or or or get an emergency management, messaging system that is the least expensive thing possible. Yeah. And and they have to wait. They they have to put it in their budget because they don't have the funds available you take, you know, there's a whole another element to this that we haven't even talked about yet is some of the things that we see in the private school space. Those ten thousand schools in Texas is just public school. The private school space, there are a lot of parents and schools that have done fundraising that have already have officers in place Yeah. Yeah. And this year are going in for sure and having officers on their private campus. Right? I mean, there's some schools in in Houston that we know of that has five or six full time police officers on campus every single day. Right? Because they're paying for it. So now you add that to this problem. Right? And it's it's just gonna grow. I think that, you know, it can be done. You know, we did it in twenty eighteen. You know, that was one of the first things that we recommended that I recommended when I went into Texas City is, hey, listen, we're gonna build a holistic plan that plan's going include training our staff, increasing our technology footprint as a force multiplier, to our human element we're going to put an officer on every campus. I think we were way ahead of our time. You know, unfortunately, twenty twenty, you know, we had a different administration come in. Did not, I don't think understand the value of what we had done, which we were you know, recognized for, and remove those officers. And now we've got to go back and put them right back in. It's like, okay, who was ahead of their time? Who, you know, and it's not a matter of right or wrong. It's just, you know, having the forethought to know what was coming. Now it's required. Okay. So and it was approved in two thousand eighteen by the board unanimously And, you know, now our footprint at our particular school is not what it used to be. So, you know, the end of the day, do I find SROs to be, effective on campuses? Yes. Absolutely. Without a doubt, yes, I do. It has to be the right person. But now we've created this vacuum where it's gonna be acquired, but like Mike said, okay, it's required, but what if they don't do it? What's the consequences? That's exactly what I was gonna say is that, yeah, we now have additional legislation that's saying that a school has to do anything. No teeth. Okay. Well, not only no teeth, there's no tracking of it. What are we gonna do? Add another field to the eighteen hundred questions on an audit form. Do you have an s r o? Yes. XL spreadsheet? XL spreadsheet. Is that We have a process. So we have an we have an audit process. It perfectly. And mail in your eighteen hundred questions sheet. And we'll we'll file that in the way. So We'll have twenty more twenty one more innocence. Souls taken like in Yvaldi. Yep. And the Senate will expose the fact that there was no compliance. Nobody's done it. And no one fourteen months later will have been held accountable. Yep. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna flat out say it. Someone should've lost their job about that. Well But every single one of them that was responsible is still in those positions. I wanna think about a week. We can talk about that as much as we want, but, Mike made a good point about disparity of resources. Weird the playing field is never gonna be leveled because that's that's just how life is. You know, you have to think about that. And and and you can go into all different facets of life. The plan field is not gonna be leveled. Some people will be going the same speed, but they're dealing with different terrain. And we all have to realize that. And there are some things that we just have to gonna we're just gonna have to accept and adjust. Yeah. And so of those districts, when when when we talk about some of those districts being able to, make decisions that we may not agree with. Like, we we talk about school marshals that we don't necessarily agree with that. But but I have my own opinions about that. I I can't I can't speak for you two guys. But, what are what is your opinion on school marshals. Well I mean, let me just roll that bus up and throw you right underneath it. No. This is geared. Yeah. Not at all. My opinion on school marshals is this. Let's just say I'll use my second grade teacher's name, miss Braacks. Love Ms. Braacks. She she was one of those people that drove instruction with an iron fist. Miss frat miss miss Bracks loves us hard. But I know in my heart if someone in my class acted up and everyone else in danger. Miss Brax wouldn't have been strong enough to shoot him. You gotta think about Let me ask you, let me ask you a direct question. You've been in education twenty five years. Do you think that you could have shot one of these kids or a kid that that brought that level of violence to your campus. You personally Well, I'll say this. I think the biggest thing about that is There may be a capability for someone to do that. But at the end of the day, realistically, that's gonna be that teacher's last day. And there's, there's a cliche. It's actually in a song, where where where people talk about is kind of a kind of a precursor of not committing suicide. It's it's a phrase I'll kill you, but not myself. I had a conversation with an officer. And many years ago, and I've never I've never forgotten this, and I actually talked to him the other day. He talked about every day. He goes to work. Before he leaves, he kisses his wife, and he says I will see you tonight. And his, and his only focus was to get home safe to kiss his wife again. And being able to do that and not have to second guess whether or not he's gonna come home to his wife by any means necessary. Mhmm. This fifth grade science teacher who has this guy who has this this this ideology, this this idolization of of, of the, past school shooters. He's looking through his he's he's looking through his tablets. He's looking through his tablets. But he has a relate this teacher can connect with him. Mhmm. And on this day, he comes to school with his plan that he's been planning out for years. This teacher has this relationship with him. And it comes down to it, that teacher has to make a decision, that kid who she loves wholeheartedly to take him out. And the day that she does that no matter how much training she has, no matter how many how many psychological eval she's went through, how many hours of marksmanship she goes through That's gonna be her last effective day as an educator. I agree with you. And I am delighted to hear that you've responded it responded to the question like that because so many people will go, yep, I have no problem shooting a kid. You're lying.
