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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yesterday my kid also was told to hold her laptop above her head. not sure which school as she does go to an academy class.

She also set off the detector at the academy school on day 2. They told her to go to another kind of separate scanner and she just went to class. Nobody stopped her. When she went back to base school she didn't set it off with the same stuff, so who knows.[/quote]

NP with younger kids but following—why do they have to hold laptops above their heads?  Won’t the metal detector detect any metal on the body—what makes holding items above the head special?[/quote]

Laptop, umbrella, 3-ring binder.......can make the "weapon detector" sound. So they told student to hold these stuff high to avoid being scanned by the detector. If your student is too short, like my DD's friend, who can't raise the laptop and other stuff high enough to go out of the "weapon detector" scanning range, the person at the detector will send the student to a table aside to go through manual backpack search. They also check students lunch box at the manual search table. Not sure what they are looking for, medal forks maybe?[/quote]

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