Utah school uses software to keep students safe

While I agree their software will not prevent another shooting, the suggestion that every little bit we can do to keep our children safer is not only a welcomed addition, but the responsible thing to do. If the software were to only help protect one child from being hurt in any way, that makes it invaluable. I'm under the impression Dennis would prefer we have a DEA Agent in every classroom, with fully automatic M4 .556's as a start for self defense weaponry, full panic room support and gear, and would still complain we need bigger tax breaks. The only avoidance you offer for the heart breaking actions would be to load a three round burst of jacketed hollow points into any suspicious individual approaching the doors. How about we place the responsibility back on the parents to properly teach respect, value for human life, and personal responsibility for actions including proper safekeeping of ALL firearms and medicating. I appreciate EVERY step the school, and the ladies at the front desk take to help these children learn in a safer environment. It can't all be avoided, but taking every action we are able to counts! Keep up the excellent work Entheos, thank you for caring and taking steps to protect our children!

And while the "front office ladies at Entheos charter school" are busy issuing their little photo-ID's via their $1500 Raptor software to make sure no visitors are on the sex-offender list, people like Adam Lanza simply go to one of those "locked doors," blast their way through it with their .223 Bushmaster rifle and wreak the same havoc as occurred at Newtown, CT, regardless of how much student safety "ways" on the minds of Entheos' administrative staff, whether this way or that way. Nor would it have weighed much on the mind of Lanza had that same software been utilized at Sandy Hook Elementary, as I doubt he would have had much interest in obtaining a photo-ID before gaining entrance. Parents who actually believe such paranoid-inspired nonsense that this Raptor software has even the remotest possibility of enhancing the safety of their children at school would seemingly be well advised to seek the services of a phrenologist to have their heads examined at the earliest convenience, as well as the "front office ladies at Entheos" upon whose minds student safety so heavily "ways." But if Raptor has already sold their software to 8000 schools at $1500/copy, that equates to some $12 million to date, so they're flying pretty high these days; hence the name "Raptor," I suppose. In the meantime, we'll no doubt continue reading about how many elementary kids are bringing guns to school these days in their parent-approved, bullet-proof, Kevlar backpacks; none of whom would be likely to show up on any sex-offender list even if they were to be scrutinized by the Raptor software. To my mind, the real tragedy in schools today is the amount of prescription drugs dispensed by teachers to innocent kids who are simply bored with classroom routines that can't hope to compete with the mind stimulation of computer games those kids became accustomed to long before their first day of school. And I expect the final toxicology reports on Adam Lanza will show much the same thing.