Amish Not Seen Likely to Embrace Security Measures

Schools 'protected' from influence of technology, experts say.

The Amish in Lancaster County, Pa., are not likely to respond to the fatal shootings in one of their schools by adding technology for security, according to scholars of Amish society.

Giving teachers in the one-room schoolhouses where most Amish children are educated cellular telephones to use in an emergency, for example, would go against the religious community’s views on education.

In Amish schools, where children are taught the values of what it means to be Amish, the only gadgets are battery-run clocks, said Donald B. Kraybill, a sociology professor at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa., and an...