Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Westfield had huge delays in spring when they tried this AND it was when all the seniors were off campus.

They had two doors/two screeners total. Kids were an hour late to class every day.

The buses held kids on the bus until the pre-screening let-off time then they all got off at once and got in line. It made no sense.

The one police officer who directs the traffic for the whole school was pulled to assist.

I can't imagine what the lines will
Look like with 2700+ kids and two screeners.

PWC school have much lower populations and a lot more screeners.0

+1 The person saying there was no line might go to a different Westfield. My DS sent me pics of the line in front of him and behind him. It wrapped around the school.

DD goes to Westfield. She said the screening added a couple of minutes to her delay. I dropped her off daily, and there were a couple of days maybe where the lines were long. The traffic cop wasn't pulled off to assist more than a handful of times. If your kid is telling you that the security screening made them an hour late to class, you need to have a chat with them about that.

This is false. unless you are dropping her ridiculously early to be number one in line.

+1 Westfield was a mess last year.

What concerns me is that ALL seniors were off campus during the trial days. Now we have confused freshman added to the mix. Unless they added a bunch more detectors and staff and open more doors to use, it is going to be a massive cluster-f.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Westfield had huge delays in spring when they tried this AND it was when all the seniors were off campus.

They had two doors/two screeners total. Kids were an hour late to class every day.

The buses held kids on the bus until the pre-screening let-off time then they all got off at once and got in line. It made no sense.

The one police officer who directs the traffic for the whole school was pulled to assist.

I can't imagine what the lines will
Look like with 2700+ kids and two screeners.

PWC school have much lower populations and a lot more screeners.0

+1 The person saying there was no line might go to a different Westfield. My DS sent me pics of the line in front of him and behind him. It wrapped around the school.

DD goes to Westfield. She said the screening added a couple of minutes to her delay. I dropped her off daily, and there were a couple of days maybe where the lines were long. The traffic cop wasn't pulled off to assist more than a handful of times. If your kid is telling you that the security screening made them an hour late to class, you need to have a chat with them about that.

This is false. unless you are dropping her ridiculously early to be number one in line.

+1 Westfield was a mess last year.

What concerns me is that ALL seniors were off campus during the trial days. Now we have confused freshman added to the mix. Unless they added a bunch more detectors and staff and open more doors to use, it is going to be a massive cluster-f.

+1 The person saying there was no line might go to a different Westfield. My DS sent me pics of the line in front of him and behind him. It wrapped around the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Westfield had huge delays in spring when they tried this AND it was when all the seniors were off campus.

They had two doors/two screeners total. Kids were an hour late to class every day.

The buses held kids on the bus until the pre-screening let-off time then they all got off at once and got in line. It made no sense.

The one police officer who directs the traffic for the whole school was pulled to assist.

I can't imagine what the lines will
Look like with 2700+ kids and two screeners.

PWC school have much lower populations and a lot more screeners.0

DD goes to Westfield. She said the screening added a couple of minutes to her delay. I dropped her off daily, and there were a couple of days maybe where the lines were long. The traffic cop wasn't pulled off to assist more than a handful of times. If your kid is telling you that the security screening made them an hour late to class, you need to have a chat with them about that.

This is not true. Why are you lying? I drove my dc every day, dc was there on time, and he waited a LONG time every day. Friends whose dc took the bus reported same. Kids were regularly 45-60 min late to his first period. The one day it was raining, they canceled the screening (I guess school shooters stay home when it rains).

the bad guys don't like rain I guess

[Anonymous]

The fact that they didn't bother screening on the rainy day just drove home the fact that it was total theater.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the School Board needs to actually show up at the schools and see what a disaster their dumb policies make.

If you think screening is required for safety, then you have to fund it up a whole lot more. You need to buy hundreds more scanners and hire people to work them.

[Anonymous]

Even my kids at Langley saw pics of the lines at Westfield!

[Anonymous]

Can’t they get a PSA pre check line going? Straight As and no line for you?

I know, I know this isn’t really well thought through, but even the TSA had to back track.

[Anonymous]

What if a shooter comes to school while students are lining up outside waiting for their turn to be screened?

[Anonymous]

Weapon screening systems have been used in some neighboring school districts for a while. Maybe 30 minutes extra social time in the morning for students is not that bad?

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/alexandria/students-face-long-lines-on-first-day-of-weapons-detection-scanners-alexandria-city-high-school/65-5f0fde77-8ed0-4186-a9cd-20195d1c8318

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weapon screening systems have been used in some neighboring school districts for a while. Maybe 30 minutes extra social time in the morning for students is not that bad?

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/alexandria/students-face-long-lines-on-first-day-of-weapons-detection-scanners-alexandria-city-high-school/65-5f0fde77-8ed0-4186-a9cd-20195d1c8318

Are you thinking 30 minutes before the doors open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weapon screening systems have been used in some neighboring school districts for a while. Maybe 30 minutes extra social time in the morning for students is not that bad?

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/alexandria/students-face-long-lines-on-first-day-of-weapons-detection-scanners-alexandria-city-high-school/65-5f0fde77-8ed0-4186-a9cd-20195d1c8318

Are you thinking 30 minutes before the doors open?

I am guess approvimately 30 min waiting time?
"One #ACHS student told me they waited in line 30 minutes to get inside the building this morning" ----from the report.
Student may need to wear thick coat in winter though.

[Anonymous]

They need more machines then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s all theatre of course, because the truth is that there isn’t a quick easy solution to solve school shootings.

Well there are better solutions but Americans want guns guns guns....and no one really seems to care about the children. So here we are kids waiting outside of school for an hour to check a box is the not the answer. The best part is all these schools have strangers in and out of buildings all evening. Think real hard why this is theater.

It is a mental health issue first and foremost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the kids and their laptops will just get wet on pouring rain days?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weapon screening systems have been used in some neighboring school districts for a while. Maybe 30 minutes extra social time in the morning for students is not that bad?

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/alexandria/students-face-long-lines-on-first-day-of-weapons-detection-scanners-alexandria-city-high-school/65-5f0fde77-8ed0-4186-a9cd-20195d1c8318

Are you thinking 30 minutes before the doors open?

I am guess approvimately 30 min waiting time?
"One #ACHS student told me they waited in line 30 minutes to get inside the building this morning" ----from the report.
Student may need to wear thick coat in winter though.

Their school probably has more metal detectors than 2 for 3000 students.