Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:43
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
I mean, the student arrived school early enough but still almost be late, this sounds unreasonable
They aren't walking thru doors. They are waiting in a line of hundreds maybe thousands of kids. The biggest schools have 2800+ students. How do you think that many kids can go thru metal detectors in 20 minutes?
That would have been an excellent question to ask before the Board required detectors at schools that don't have weapons/violence problems.
Didn't they try this in several school in the spring? Didn't they figure out whether this is feasible in all high schools with all 4 grades? What's the meaning of test this using a pilot program without identifying the issue and finding the solution?
This is the FCPS way.
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:43
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
??
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:42
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No problems at our high school.
Useless without identifying the school.
A school that screened 2500-3000 students with no issues on the first day of school should be sharing their unique approach with the other schools.
THIS!!!!! But we know it doesn't exist.
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:41
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
I mean, the student arrived school early enough but still almost be late, this sounds unreasonable
They aren't walking thru doors. They are waiting in a line of hundreds maybe thousands of kids. The biggest schools have 2800+ students. How do you think that many kids can go thru metal detectors in 20 minutes?
That would have been an excellent question to ask before the Board required detectors at schools that don't have weapons/violence problems.
Didn't they try this in several school in the spring? Didn't they figure out whether this is feasible in all high schools with all 4 grades? What's the meaning of test this using a pilot program without identifying the issue and finding the solution?
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:41
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DD is at South Lakes. They had to open a side door to get kids into class. This was at 8:30 and school starts at 8:10
And this is without laptops right? I know in ES the devices don't get issued until later in the first week of school.
High school students should have picked up their laptops at open house.
The only ones without laptops are the ones who missed open house.
HAHA nope-our high schools hasn't even sent any information about laptops.
Are you in FCPS?
We are. Are you?
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:39
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The bus arrived school at 8:08. The kids has 2 minutes to run through the security checkpoint.
Bus was 30 minutes late and arrived 8:05 so a whole 5 minutes for security- line was snaked around building
Imagine kids dashing out of the bus, flashing through the detector, sprinting through the hallway, and falling on their seats at 8:10 in just 2-5 minutes. oh, some of them may also need to fly from the first to the second floor before entering their 1st period classroom.
In my head I imagine the Ferris Bueller music playing
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:38
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
I mean, the student arrived school early enough but still almost be late, this sounds unreasonable
They aren't walking thru doors. They are waiting in a line of hundreds maybe thousands of kids. The biggest schools have 2800+ students. How do you think that many kids can go thru metal detectors in 20 minutes?
That would have been an excellent question to ask before the Board required detectors at schools that don't have weapons/violence problems.
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:35
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
I mean, the student arrived school early enough but still almost be late, this sounds unreasonable
They aren't walking thru doors. They are waiting in a line of hundreds maybe thousands of kids. The biggest schools have 2800+ students. How do you think that many kids can go thru metal detectors in 20 minutes?
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:31
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
They used to open the doors at 7:30. I guess they don’t have staff to work the metal detectors that early. It took forever just to get to the school parking lot this morning.
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:22
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
I mean, the student arrived school early enough but still almost be late, this sounds unreasonable
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:22
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
Needing to get to school 45 minutes early to walk through the doors.
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:15
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
What doesn't make sense?
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:10
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
This doesn't make any sense! at all!
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:09
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have seen online that one of the "M" high schools is a disaster this morning getting into tge schools.
+1
What is an “M” school? McLean and Madison? lol, this isn’t like the W schools in MoCo.
There's also Marshall. (and outside of FCPS, Meridian. the boundaries all abut each other and use M's as part of their logos. So it's sort of like the W schools in MoCo.)
Don't forget Mount Vernon, and West PotoMac too!
Anonymous
08/18/2025 11:06
Subject: Will school weapon detections cause class time delay?
DC arrived at Chantilly at 7:35 and barely made it to class on time.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.
The schools need to open the doors earlier.