Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?

[Anonymous]

Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actual student here. I go to TJ, so I generally don’t have to worry about classmates bringing weapons to school anyway. At least at TJ, it goes by very smoothly. It was a bit annoying at first, but you get used to it quickly. However, it all depends on when your bus arrives. If your bus arrives later, then you’ll most likely be late. The process is quite quick though.

I wish you a safe high school experience but don't forget that the deadliest school/university shooting was conducted by an Asian man ( VA Tech.) with TJ level profile. Stressed out people have a higher chance of collapsing.

[Anonymous]

Lake Braddock has 4,000 kids. I don’t see the numbers working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

At our school, the kids on early arriving buses are held on the bus until the school doors open at7:40. Is that not true everywhere?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

At our school, the kids on early arriving buses are held on the bus until the school doors open at7:40. Is that not true everywhere?

Don't the buses need to go do something else? And being trapped on a school bus sounds like torture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

At our school, the kids on early arriving buses are held on the bus until the school doors open at7:40. Is that not true everywhere?

Don't the buses need to go do something else? And being trapped on a school bus sounds like torture.

Yah we have around 50 buses. They have to drop and move on. There’s no waiting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

At our school, the kids on early arriving buses are held on the bus until the school doors open at7:40. Is that not true everywhere?

Don't the buses need to go do something else? And being trapped on a school bus sounds like torture.

Yah we have around 50 buses. They have to drop and move on. There’s no waiting.

50 buses? I hope this is a high school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chantilly HS started today. Principal sent a newsletter earlier and said students will not be marked tardy due to the weapons detector. Eager to hear from my child how it went. Luckily his bus gets there super early.

At our school, the kids on early arriving buses are held on the bus until the school doors open at7:40. Is that not true everywhere?

Don't the buses need to go do something else? And being trapped on a school bus sounds like torture.

Yah we have around 50 buses. They have to drop and move on. There’s no waiting.

At Westfield, the students wait on the bus and then they are all left off at the exact time the school doors open, 7:40. And they have a ton of buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Week 3- have all the kinks been worked out?

Kids at ours go in through side doors if lines are long. Or kids come in early to work out and coaches let them in without screening them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Week 3- have all the kinks been worked out?

Kids at ours go in through side doors if lines are long. Or kids come in early to work out and coaches let them in without screening them.

+1 the whole thing is a joke. Kids are opening side doors for kids to come in without screening bc the lines are ridiculous. Everyone is pissed off - teachers, staff, students and parents. Reid should be fired.

[Anonymous]

Hayfield started today and the lines were so long that halfway through they just gave up and let everyone in. Cool.

[Anonymous]

My kids have been 8-10 minutes late to first period from the start and that hasn't changed. In fact, it's been getting later. Although the school has not been clear that kids won't be marked tardy, the teachers have been marking excused or not noting the tardy at all.

[Anonymous]

Our high school started this week. My student says he's only been a minute or two late to class (he's a bus rider, so no way to control when he arrives). But he also said they are not being thorough at all. It went off when he went through one day, and they just let him through without any further checks.

[Anonymous]

Robinson started today and it was not smooth at all.....

[Anonymous]

They have this at Herndon HS and South Lakes HS.

It works really well and it moves quickly at S Lakes at least.

I’m a school bus driver and remind my students to take their stuff out of the back pack as we approach school. And to also take things that are prohibited and use the trash can if needed. I don’t mention things specifically but they know I’m referring to gapes, medications, etc.

I haven’t found vapes yet in my bus, but have found ibuprofen pills - 😂

The scans are not only for weapons and it works for capes too, which is s big concern and problem among the student body.

It is also a deterrent for other stuff that has no place in schools - weed, mushrooms, pills, etc.