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[quote=Anonymous]I would support metal detectors if someone could clarify...

1.  Our huge school has about 10 entrances and 4 are heavily used by staff and students to access parking lots, fields, and in the past, portables.  Would we get multiple detectors, or would we have to walk around the entire building to use the doors with detectors?

2.  Who will work the detectors all day long?  Who covers their breaks?

3.  When the busses start dropping off hundreds of students at once, how long will it take to process them, especially if student backpacks and jackets must be searched when the detectors go off?  What if it's pouring rain?

4.  Who's going to monitor every other entrance, an obvious work-around for someone with bad intentions, as students always open the door for students they recognize (or don't recognize) or to leave the building?

5.  If detectors do give bad actors pause, wouldn't they shift their attention to an unprotected bus stop, a crowded bus, the dozens of students in line at the detectors, the officer running the detector before freely going into the school, or the same victims at a local McDonald's?[/quote]

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