on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, or crucially, didn t do to stop him. this afternoon, local officials held a press conference and was clear that there are still many holes in the story. we re gonna talk more about that later in the show. but something that i am certain of, is that the most wrongheaded downright dystopian response to the murder in the town of uvalde is to call for quote, hardening schools. we have to harden our schools, not soften them up. the most important thing we can do is harden the schools. harden schools. hardening schools. god help us if we don t harden our schools and protect our kids. you ever notice when that happens, like some nasty new bit of lingo that didn t exist before in all like iran is saying it. clearly there was some memmel, somewhere. that was the enraging
times covering education policy her latest piece is called, public school secure strategies of nostalgia shootings. and she joins me now. they, know this is an excellent piece of reporting, and i feel amiss this awful horrible situation. useful information that i don t know, thank you for doing it. just on the little. that uvalde, texas schools really did get money and put into place a bunch of procedures to try to make them more secure. they did and in recent years, they drastically increased their budget for school security. and they had drills, they had a system that scaned i. d. s when you came into the building. that would be checked for a child predator list, or not custodial parent. he had the exercises they found a local police was boasting about. and seeing if you see, us don t these kids. knowing that potentially seeing adults coming into the building outfit that way could be alarming for children.