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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t read 44 pages of comments, but you all are a bunch of whiners.  These are not the first schools to implement screening.  Yes, it will cause delays, especially at first.  Everyone will learn the system and it will be fine.  In this era of school violence, as a parent I’d be more annoyed that it took this long to put the security in place than over the inconvenience of adjusting to the new system.  [/quote]

There is no "security", its theater. This isn't making anyone safer. That's the issue. [/quote]

Exactly. At Woodson, they pulled out all the stops to improve the optics -- including having the Frost principal work the line, [b]shoving the waiting kids into the auditorium so people outside couldn't see the line[/b], doing no secondary screening of items perfectly capable of concealing a weapon, and waving kids through even when the detector goes off. No one is safer for this, and kids will get marked tardy. My kid got in at 8:08, and his first class is on the other side of the school more than a 2-minute walk away. The second bell is at 8:10, and the school's email on Friday stated that kids will be marked tardy starting today. This is a win for optics and a loss for actual substantive safety.[/quote]

So kids waiting to be screened to go into school were waiting in the school?

Somebody make this make sense. [/quote]

Yes. Everyone knows that lunatics won't use their weapons inside auditoriums or outside on the sidewalk. Duh.[/quote]

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