Kristin Rushowy, Toronto Star
September 5, 2008
Proposal would station police in 30 high schools in an attempt to forge ties with local youth
While Toronto’s two school boards have yet to name the schools where armed officers will be assigned, two public trustees can already tell you where they won’t be – in their wards.
Trustees Chris Bolton (Trinity-Spadina) and Sheila Cary-Meagher (Beaches-East York) have already nixed the idea.
“I can’t imagine in this day and age, the school boards and the cops getting together and putting guys with guns in secondary schools,” said Cary-Meagher.
“I don’t mind them coming in to talk to children in Grades 1, 2 and 3 about safety, but to have them walking the halls and wearing guns in high schools, where guns are a problem, is mind-blowing to me.”
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