JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Community members are demanding accountability after board member and second Vice President Erin Kenworthy said school safety is a “privilege” during the district’s first meeting since the shooting at Evergreen High School, where two students were shot and critically injured.
Parents and community members, some of whom had children running for their lives and others who lost children in past school shootings, had just shared their stories. Then Kenworthy made this comment.
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“Safety is actually a privilege, it is not a right, and it cannot be guaranteed, which is incredibly hard for any parent to say to their child, but it is true in the culture and the time that we live in,” said Kenworthy. “It’s not just in schools; it’s in movie theaters, it’s happening at grocery stores, and in public parks, and also in schools. And so, I wish that I felt that I could walk through this world entitled to safety, but I am not, and there are people in this world who have never experienced a feeling of safety, and may not in their lifetime, and so to expect that we can guarantee safety for ourselves and for our children is an unfortunate untruth.
“We just cannot guarantee it. We can do everything we can to support it. But I wanted to say that because safety absolutely is a privilege. Feeling safe is a privilege,” Kenworthy concluded…