The little boy who was kidnapped right off of a bus, sometime in the last year or so, was not in a big town. That happened in a rural area.
I agree, that technology is not always the answer to fixing everything. It sometimes even creates more problems. However, technology is the answer in some cases.
My father, earlier today, spoke with the Superintendent of a very small rural school in our area. This school has had an analog radio system for many years. It was working properly, as well as could be expected of an analog system.
It was replaced with a MOTOTRBO system not too many months ago.
They now have considerably better coverage than before (including better coverage in the school buildings themselves, with portables).
The Superintendent said that "they love their digital radios".
Having fast, reliable communications, throughout a school and to/from the buses, is extremely important, much more so now than in the past.
John Rayfield, Jr. CETma
W0PM
And yet those serious problems occurred in bigger school districts with lots of money. Technology is not the answer, especially when making choices between advanced radios and expenditures that might actually increase public safety.
