Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:13     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Get there early.
Do security lines cause planes to wait for you?


Getting there early doesn't change a thing....kids should not have to be at school an hour early. STOP!


Seriously they spend enough hours of their day there. This is getting ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:12     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Get there early.
Do security lines cause planes to wait for you?


Getting there early doesn't change a thing....kids should not have to be at school an hour early. STOP!
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:11     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Given Westfield's terrible admin my guess is they didn't change a thing about their terrible procedure last year for the rising year.


+1
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:10     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just received an email about detection system & Arrival information from the high school. Student can use only two door to enter the school building in the morning during 7:40-8:10. After 8:10, only one door remains as the building entrance. Students must go through the weapon screening systems and arrive class at 8:10. Some items must be removed when students before students getting in line such as medal three ring binders, laptops, collapsible umbrellas, metal lunch boxes, metal pencil cases, metal glass cases. Is it feasible for over 2000 students to pass the weapon screening system using only two doors in just 30 minutes? What if the congestion causes crows collapse?


I mean, if we’re going to get worked up about kids losing a couple minutes to security checks, we should probably also take a hard look at all the other “non-academic priorities” clogging up the schedule. Between the weekly “identity circles,” mandatory equity assemblies, and class time spent rehashing the district’s latest culturally responsive icebreaker, we’ve already shaved the day down to about 27 minutes of actual instruction.

At least the metal detectors keep knives out. The rest of the interruptions just keep critical thinking out.


Yes, more time taken away from actual instruction, but what is worse is the fish in a barrel scenario of putting large groups of people in a slow moving funnel.

Is safety really the concern here or is it more about control?


control and a show
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:09     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Get there early.
Do security lines cause planes to wait for you?
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:04     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just received an email about detection system & Arrival information from the high school. Student can use only two door to enter the school building in the morning during 7:40-8:10. After 8:10, only one door remains as the building entrance. Students must go through the weapon screening systems and arrive class at 8:10. Some items must be removed when students before students getting in line such as medal three ring binders, laptops, collapsible umbrellas, metal lunch boxes, metal pencil cases, metal glass cases. Is it feasible for over 2000 students to pass the weapon screening system using only two doors in just 30 minutes? What if the congestion causes crows collapse?


I mean, if we’re going to get worked up about kids losing a couple minutes to security checks, we should probably also take a hard look at all the other “non-academic priorities” clogging up the schedule. Between the weekly “identity circles,” mandatory equity assemblies, and class time spent rehashing the district’s latest culturally responsive icebreaker, we’ve already shaved the day down to about 27 minutes of actual instruction.

At least the metal detectors keep knives out. The rest of the interruptions just keep critical thinking out.


Yes, more time taken away from actual instruction, but what is worse is the fish in a barrel scenario of putting large groups of people in a slow moving funnel.

Is safety really the concern here or is it more about control?
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:02     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Given Westfield's terrible admin my guess is they didn't change a thing about their terrible procedure last year for the rising year.


this.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 11:01     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Last year the standard notebooks that kids have for every class (the one subject type spiral notebooks) were setting off the detector.


this and they were being told to not worry about it. So not really a feeling of safety just a show. My kid got through with scissors at the bottom of the bag-it didn't set off the detector.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:59     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just received an email about detection system & Arrival information from the high school. Student can use only two door to enter the school building in the morning during 7:40-8:10. After 8:10, only one door remains as the building entrance. Students must go through the weapon screening systems and arrive class at 8:10. Some items must be removed when students before students getting in line such as medal three ring binders, laptops, collapsible umbrellas, metal lunch boxes, metal pencil cases, metal glass cases. Is it feasible for over 2000 students to pass the weapon screening system using only two doors in just 30 minutes? What if the congestion causes crows collapse?


I mean, if we’re going to get worked up about kids losing a couple minutes to security checks, we should probably also take a hard look at all the other “non-academic priorities” clogging up the schedule. Between the weekly “identity circles,” mandatory equity assemblies, and class time spent rehashing the district’s latest culturally responsive icebreaker, we’ve already shaved the day down to about 27 minutes of actual instruction.

At least the metal detectors keep knives out. The rest of the interruptions just keep critical thinking out.


MAGA is here....go find the politics section.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:54     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Given Westfield's terrible admin my guess is they didn't change a thing about their terrible procedure last year for the rising year.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:51     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Last year the standard notebooks that kids have for every class (the one subject type spiral notebooks) were setting off the detector.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:50     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Thousands of students lined up outside for hours doesn't seem that safe to me. Talk
about sitting ducks.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:49     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just received an email about detection system & Arrival information from the high school. Student can use only two door to enter the school building in the morning during 7:40-8:10. After 8:10, only one door remains as the building entrance. Students must go through the weapon screening systems and arrive class at 8:10. Some items must be removed when students before students getting in line such as medal three ring binders, laptops, collapsible umbrellas, metal lunch boxes, metal pencil cases, metal glass cases. Is it feasible for over 2000 students to pass the weapon screening system using only two doors in just 30 minutes? What if the congestion causes crows collapse?


I mean, if we’re going to get worked up about kids losing a couple minutes to security checks, we should probably also take a hard look at all the other “non-academic priorities” clogging up the schedule. Between the weekly “identity circles,” mandatory equity assemblies, and class time spent rehashing the district’s latest culturally responsive icebreaker, we’ve already shaved the day down to about 27 minutes of actual instruction.

At least the metal detectors keep knives out. The rest of the interruptions just keep critical thinking out.


A few minutes? Kids were over an hour late to
Class every day they tried this out. And they were marked tardy by the way, and the teachers started teaching promptly at 8:15.

Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:48     Subject: Re:Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are in Prince William where we have them and we have found that it moves very quickly. Get there ontime or early and you will not have problems. It's a relief as a parent not to have to worry about my child getting shot or stabbed at school.


Students should not have to get to school any earlier than they already do.


Students should not have to be afraid their classmates will shoot them but they do.


Unfortunately, this security theater does not make kids safe from that happening.

There are a million ways even the dumbest kid can figure out how to do a school shooting even with metal detectors. This is wasting our kids time and making them miss class for no reason.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:48     Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Are we living in a war area? Weapon screening in schools, body guards for the superintendent