$768 million is the amount that schools and universities spend on security measures in 2014 (8). “The Fear Industry Goes Back to School” by Sasha Abramsky states that school shootings, according to statistical evidence, do not happen as often as security fundings may make it seem. Social media implements fear into the minds of parents all around the world. Therefore, schools are spending too much on security systems, even though school shootings don’t happen as much, and the excessive spending leads to security overstepping its boundaries. Security funding needs to equal the funding of educational programs to ensure safety while giving the child a better and well funded education. Each of these the author addresses and agrees with, and
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She opens with a quote from a parent about what they look for while searching for a good school. That list included “creative, nurturing, caring, and security-conscious.” (1). She then goes on to talk about the fear that parents have of a shooting happening while their kid is inside the school. While as parents think this happens very often, it doesn’t. Sasha continues with a list of different statistics over the amount of kids lost to school shootings in the past years. “School violence is a rarity in America” (4). Afterwards she goes on to talk about the ridiculous high-tech systems that schools install and the training teachers have to go through to protect the children. This leads into the market of fear, and how companies are taking advantage of the opportunities handed to them so they are creating “bizarre” (15) products that will not protect their children. There are products such as bulletproof backpacks, jackets, IPad cases, even bulletproof whiteboards (17). None of these products have stopped a shooting or protected a child from harm, and the entrepreneur who made these products said “Thank God, none has yet.” (18). Sasha then goes on with the topic of prices and the funding of these security measures, and how they are hurting education programs. She ends with the discussion of fear and how social media and the news are putting fear into everyone’s
She opens with a quote from a parent about what they look for while searching for a good school. That list included “creative, nurturing, caring, and security-conscious.” (1). She then goes on to talk about the fear that parents have of a shooting happening while their kid is inside the school. While as parents think this happens very often, it doesn’t. Sasha continues with a list of different statistics over the amount of kids lost to school shootings in the past years. “School violence is a rarity in America” (4). Afterwards she goes on to talk about the ridiculous high-tech systems that schools install and the training teachers have to go through to protect the children. This leads into the market of fear, and how companies are taking advantage of the opportunities handed to them so they are creating “bizarre” (15) products that will not protect their children. There are products such as bulletproof backpacks, jackets, IPad cases, even bulletproof whiteboards (17). None of these products have stopped a shooting or protected a child from harm, and the entrepreneur who made these products said “Thank God, none has yet.” (18). Sasha then goes on with the topic of prices and the funding of these security measures, and how they are hurting education programs. She ends with the discussion of fear and how social media and the news are putting fear into everyone’s