Notebooks and Armor

As threats and violence reach our campuses, schools must strengthen their security to ensure that classrooms remain safe places for learning rather than scary zones for survival.

A school should be a place where students walk in without fear and leave with new lessons, not where fear becomes part of the classroom. Recent reports of threats, violence, and the tragic shooting incidents show that school safety can never be taken for granted. This is why stronger security inside schools is necessary.

The DILG and DepEd are set to strengthen school security through an agreement that may allow barangay tanods to have a station inside school grounds. DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla said tanods know their communities and can also help watch over students. This step can help prevent threats before they become more serious.

Students spend a large part of their lives inside schools, so safety must be treated as a priority. Security should not only focus on the outside of the school because problems can also happen within the campus. Bullying must also be taken seriously because it can create fear and conflict among students.

Security does not mean treating every student like a suspect; it means making sure everyone can study without fear. Rules, proper monitoring, and trusted adults can work together without taking away the safe and welcoming environment students need.

This is not the time to treat school threats as jokes or trends. Students must think before posting, speaking, or making threats, while schools, parents, and authorities must act on warning signs instead of ignoring them. Students deserve to carry books, not burdens, and to look at their classrooms as places of wonder rather than zones of survival.