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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any mention of detectors in schools?[/quote]

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.[/quote]

Curious if anyone has checked DCPS or PgPS budget for how much these cost.  I’m really not convinced the value is there, considering both the financial cost and the cost in student time (waking up substantially earlier to get thru metal detectors).  But they could put a lot of SROs back in school for that money.  From my perspective, bringing in weapons is a relatively rare occurrence (or at least it’s rare that the weapons are used in the school)—but fist fights and similar violence is a very common occurrence.  If they could get more SROs and security officers in the schools — like at least one in every HS hallway, they could at least reroute that violence outside the school buildings so that kids and teachers who want to engage in education can do so.  
That’s my two cents as a parent with 15 years at McPS and another 4 to go.
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In case you haven't heard, MCPD has a serious staffing shortage that is only predicted to get worse. I suggest the "Bring Back SROs" crowd shift their thinking because it is simply not possible to go back to that with current and future staffing levels in the police department.[/quote]

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