Fallbrook High resembles Juvenile Hall

I have an idea. Instead of spending money on fences and guards to keep our teenagers in school, why not spend it on creating an environment that inspires them to learn, text books that are not out of date and a weekly school newspaper?

This list goes on, but Fallbrook’s educators decided that the solution was to simply lock them in. Fallbrook High resembles Juvenile Hall, not a school.

If our school board would read the minimum amount of research on teenage behavior and mental development, they would know that the moment they built the fence, the goal of most students’ became how to find a way to escape. In my opinion, the school board must not have an idea how a teenage brain works. Their message to the students is not one of inspiration but one of antiquated discipline. They have the power, but do they have the intellect and enthusiasm to educate?

High school should be a place where teachers and administrators are passionate about teaching and treat the students like students not prisoners. If the fence is to keep out unwanted drug dealers, students can still purchase them on Main Street.

If children were intellectually stimulated and had after-school clubs they would have fewer reasons to buy drugs - or - we could just put a fence around all of Fallbrook.

Is the goal to prepare and inspire our children to have a thirst for knowledge or to prepare them for a life behind bars?

Jim Isaac