Metal Detectors at McLean High Only Active Before School Starts

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Anonymous wrote:My child reports no long lines at their approx. 2000 student high school. It's been going well.

Which specific school?

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Anonymous wrote:Do all HS have the security person that sits in front hall and marks people in and out on computer during day? Wouldn’t it have been easier to have hired 1 police person to sit with them for each HS than the 20-minutes a morning weapons check machines?

At my teen’s high school (not McLean) security is there all day, up through dismissal, and there is no point in the day when anyone can come in without going through the metal detector.

At my child's school there are trailers. Students who leave the main building for a mid day trailer class do not re-enter through security. Students who enter through the front doors mid day do, but those who go in/out the back door for trailer classes do not. It is probably ~400 kids per period.

It's a joke.

Could they enter back through one or two doors? What is the reason it isn't up?

The reality of 400 kids walking all the way around the building to the front door, lining up to go back through metal detectors, and getting to class on time is laughable. It's 5 minutes just to walk to the front entrance from the back trailers, let alone get inside, let alone walk to the other side of the building where the classrooms are. That's a 15 minute procedure in the span of a passing period.

They could institute another metal detector at the back doors I suppose, but then that's double the staff to run it.

[Anonymous]

Centreville High School is the same. Before the bell, students need to access the school through 2 doors equipped with metal detectors. After the bell rings, students can access the school from any door. Also, DD, took our large metal scissors (nice, heavyweight) to her friend's house because they were working on some cardboard signs. She forgot she had them in her backpack and went through the metal detectors, and the scissors didn't trigger anything. She went into school like she had nothing in her backpack. So all this money and the inconvenience of metal detectors is really for nothing. The only reason I can think of is to show that they were "actively" trying to prevent a shooting, in case a shooting actually happens (knock on wood). Pitiful.