Easton Schools Lose Security Guards

When people arrived at the front of an Easton Area elementary school and hit the buzzer to get inside, a security guard would buzz them in.

Not anymore.

The has done away with security guards, yet another casualty of a summer that saw more than 100 teachers and 50 staffers lose their jobs in the wake of closing a budget deficit.

Security guards at , Forks, Palmer, , Shawnee, Tracy and elementary schools were eliminated as part of the Easton Area School District's layoffs for 2012-13, according to the Express-Times.

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