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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don’t want them, particularly if they are not part of a comprehensive security plan that doesn’t paint all kids as potential criminals.  Why?  Because metal deter and clear backpacks are not a new novel idea.  Plenty of places have already tried this and still have incidents happen.

There aren’t metal detectors on every door entrance at colleges/universities?  Neither do they exist at all private schools?

Most of the problems seen in schools start outside of school.  Mental health, food insecurity,  politics as a sport instead of governing, gangs, etc etc.  If we dealt with societal issues instead of hiding and kicking the can down the road then what goes on in schools would be education.[/quote]

You live in La-La Land, not reality.

Morgan State and Bowie State University are considering measures like walls, cameras and weapons detectors after two devastating shootings ruined their homecomings last month, which include adding more walls/fencing to the physical campus and a clear bag policy for events and "More enhanced technology to enable campus law enforcement to detect and identify any individual on campus with a weapon":

https://www.morgan.edu/news/campus-safety-enhancements

The long-term societal issues you propose we address, which aren't coupled with targeted, specific solutions and lack a timeline, don't help with the short-term needs for safety and security of staff and students next week.

What is your proposal to make the building safety next week, while you work on curing the underlying poverty and home-based trauma that is outside of the remit of the school district to solve and on an indefinite timeline?[/quote]

Metal detectors and clear bags have been tried in schools across the country and guess what… still guns, still mass shootings and everything else that goes along with it. Nothing is going to make schools safe next week and I’m not naive to believe it so.

All airports aren’t fully the same after  billions of dollars in investment and years of time.  They’ve added metal detectors, body and bag scanners, police officers circling around, dogs sniffing people while they stand in line and limiting what people can carry on.

People on this forum already complain about what time kids have to be to school.  What time do you think they’ll need to be there if everyone has to pass nicely through metal detectors every morning? Will they have to clear a checkpoint when exiting and entering to go to portables? How will the portables be secured? Etc etc. And did someone somewhere agree to provide millions of dollars for all these new metal detectors and the people and maintenance that needs to go with them???

Oh and btw the short term needs that students and teachers are most suffering from us students already in school with behavior and control challenges.  How might metal detectors help that?[/quote]

Something that is 40, 50 or 60% effective at reducing risk is better than 0% of doing nothing.[/quote]

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