Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
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Anonymous
Gatehouse wanted to join again. |
Anonymous
Nah you aren't a parent but keep defending gatehouse. |
Anonymous
LOL we are parent with kids who already went through it. |
Anonymous
That's funny, I just posted about locking up FCPS employees on the abortion thread. I'm a parent, I support the security measures. |
Anonymous
It's FCPS math 
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Anonymous
No one cares. |
Anonymous
School name please? |
Anonymous
I was accused of being an FCPS employee, I'm allowed to respond. |
Anonymous
So what school? |
Anonymous
Yep. 500 students for 1 metal detector. 30 minutes to get through the line and in the classroom before all doors are locked. Anyone not in the classroom by the time the doors are locked will be marked tardy and require a staff escort to class, according to our school's open house. Fcps did not plan this out well at all. Reid gets a 4:1 security ratio. The big high schools get a 500:1 metal detector to student ratio. |
Anonymous
| The poster whose daughter was OK may not be a lier. The poster mentioned that he/she dropped daughter at school. So, the poster can control the time the student arriving school. I just don't know how many parents can do this. Some parents' work place is at the opposite direction from driving to the school. We live not too far not close enough to school. It takes around 45 minutes walking but half of the road has no side walk. School bus pickup time is 7:40am. There were quite a few times last year, the school bus arrived after 8:00. We can't drop our kid at school in early morning due to conflict schedule. We'll see how it works in the first two weeks. We are considering let our high schooler walk or bike to school, just need to be very careful at the busy part of the road. |
Anonymous
They won't be able to do this because now they are pulling administration staff off of traffic duty, carpool lines and minitoring the school common areas, to run metal detectors. |
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Anonymous
The issue is what could be called perimeter security. The extensive use of portables at some FCPS MS and HS suburban sites v other districts/divisions and urban site plans. Considering the new metal detectors will the boundary review thresholds be reconfigured to not include the modular capacity and net of trailers actively used for instruction trailers? I think it was 105% including modulars. |
Anonymous
I'm an upthread PP whose entire division uses weapons (not "metal") detectors. If the kids scrub their backpacks of weapon-like objects (hence my comments on no 3-ring binders, metal/liquid filled water bottles, etc) and they take their laptops out and (literally) hold them over their head as they walk through the "detectors" -- they don't get set off and can walk thru at a normal pace and the line does move along. But the first few weeks have a steep learning curve for everyone (what they can/can't bring); they eventually back off on the tolerance level, and, yes, move certain kids along. Backpacks, lunchboxes, and personal items are "hand" searched only if the detectors go off. Our school has a total of four detectors -- one at the office, and three at the bus loop entrance for all ~2000 students. Faculty and staff does NOT get checked but all visitors do. That said, our detectors stop sensing things a few inches above the ankle. Wanna guess what kind of stuff literally walks into school, in shoes? Like I said, they are not making it safer; there are too many holes/inconsistencies. It is not a deterrent; it's just a PITA. They're checking off a box. I wish they'd expend equal energy and effort to eliminate vaping in the bathrooms. So glad this is our family's last year in The System. |