My Old High School Wants Its Own Police Force

It must be more than 50% blacks. Amirite?

Well if that is the case it is ridiculous that they need a police force

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If you were caught drinking at a party on the weekends, if someone saw you smoking a cigarette at the mall, if they found out you had sex, you were instantly expelled

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I think they wanted to do that at my school but one year at Mardi Gras things got out of hand.

then the next year a bunch of us showed up at the Homecoming Dance drunk.

a few really bad apples were expelled but a lot of their threats were bullshite.

oh, and Spring Break too.

can't forget that. You know how many underage drinking parties there were back then that never got busted by the cops?

but somebody always brought pictures back to school like a real genius.

somebody's mom ended up getting arrested later on.

ridiculous.

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I think it's unnecessary and stupid, but it doesn't surprise me. They could hire a state trooper or some officer from the department of public safety.

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I thought this might be like the "Student Resource Officer" or at most like Campus Police, but the way the bill reads, they would have the power to select and "deputize" anyone they wanted outside of local law enforcement organizations. They would not report to the Shelby County Sheriffs Office or State Troopers like officers at other schools. They would only be beholden to church officials.

My sister is on the faculty at the high school. I'll have to ask her what's going on in greater detail, but she's a true believer and would never speak against the school or church.

sometimes when you try and shelter kids too much it backfires.

I'll never forget my experience at a private school. My mom worked at one in Mobile so me, my brother, and my sister all had discounted tuition.

we had all gone to public school for most of our lives. So going to a private school was totally different. Sometimes I think if I hadn't played any sports things would have just sucked there.

I would have never guessed there would be so much drinking or drug use there. There was more drinking it seemed like but the year after I graduated they started doing hair follicle drug tests.

I have never seen it at the highschool level, and if you keep reading you will see I have been around quite a few Christian organizations in my day.

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could be arrested by an officer of a private, non-profit company – a church to boot – that is appointed and hired by people who are not chosen at the ballot box.

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Considering how many private colleges, Christian and Non-Christian) I have seen with small police forces, this part doesnt actually bother me that much. However with colleges you have a much larger enrollment than freaking 350 students on a teeny tiny campus. If I am not mistaken, several of the largest churches in America usually have a few of their own plainclothesmen in the building. Usually they are Subs though. Which more than likely these guys would be. They more than likey would just rotate a staff based on off days.



I am writing the subsequent few lines to give you the quantification of my opinion which will follow. I have a strong background in the subject at hand.

I am saying this as someone who is a pastor's son, has attended 12 churches, has been on youth group staff at 2 different churches and is now the Youth Pastor at a third, attended 5 Christian private schools in 3 different states(Alabama, SC, VA), and then 3 different Christian colleges in 3 different states(OK, OH, Tenn). All 7 of the various Christian Schools were incredibly strict except 1, and they were still fairly firm.


This is one of the most ridiculous fricking things I have ever heard of. Campus police for a Christian school of 350 students? This comes back to the wonderful church mentality in which EVERY SINGLE SIN MUST SOMEHOW BE frickING LEGISLATED AS AGAINST THE LAW. It is their campus, so their decision, I just think it is a terrible one. It will have a horridly chilling affect on student moral, enrollment, and church attendance(you know they will be watching for those dastardly unbelievers who show up with pot in their cars on a Sunday morning). This is a massive over-reaction to the bust. Kids do stupid crap, who knew? Real problem begins when adults go and act like this afterwards.

Stupidity, judgementalism, and lack of emotional control piss me off.

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most times when you try and shelter kids too much it backfires.

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I have seen it more times than I care to think about it. When kids are mature enough to be ready for the next step in freedom & responsibility, and parents dont allow it, it sets development back. If you keep doing this time and time again there comes a day when suddenly they are no longer mature, have no clue how to make a decision, and life is an impossible task for them.

Or they get into the real world and it terrifies them so badly that it scars them for life. This one happens mostly with hyper fundamentalist Christians who pick and choose from Biblical morality laws of dress and conduct, while ignoring a myriad of other levitical laws within the same book, chapter, and passage.


I am so tired of the Americanized Church, and the parents it creates in so many instances.
I am also so tired of the way most secular parents raise their kids. Grown adults still mewling at the tit of their original well spring.

This fine night currently finds me a tad cynical regarding humanity.

i'm so glad i wasn't raised in a hardcore southern baptist home.

that's no way to live.

Went to a very small private school. They didn't give a crap about questionable morals because well, money. They did care about defacement of school property though so my senior year, they hired security guards at night. Our senior prank was epic.