In Pasco County, high school students are issued picture ID cards. But many changes are more subtle. The Hillsborough County schools sent blueprints of all schools to area law enforcement agencies. In Pasco when a student makes a threat, psychologists and others evaluate the student and issue a report before a decision is made as to whether the student was serious. Some believe students' attitudes have changed.
Teachers take that stuff seriously.
That, Houston said, might be the silver lining. It's still pretty easy to get guns. The toxic elements in our culture haven't changed. The disconnect in the parenting world hasn't changed. Schools are still too big, too impersonal.