Continued from Page 1Bmeasures we could -take other than arming teachers."
Ideas being considered by a state commission studying how to prevent and combat school violence include:
*Designing schools with fewer entrances.
*Decreasing class sizes.
- Developing programs to detect violenceprone students, prepare emergencyresponse plans and increase the number of police assigned as school resource officers.
Blewster's statements "just run contrary (to) what works in terms of reducing school vio
lence," said Sen.Chris
Cummiskey, a Phoenix Democrat who is cochairman of the com- mission. "It's such a bizarre statement that ... isn't very constructive. "
Blewster, a first-term lawmaker and John Birch Society member, previously made headlines for comment s considered outrageous by some.
In February, she wrote an email putting homosexuality in the same class as "bestiality, human sacrifice and cannibalism."
Other lawmakers said Blewster later told a female colleague that she didn't look Jewish because she didn't have a hooked nose, and suggested to a black colleague that slavery wasn't that bad and American Indiansweren't very smart.