Public Schools again Find a Way to Mess Kids Up

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Do you teach in a prison setting.

Dear Lord.


I have taught for 40 years, and have yet to experience what you experience, and you teach Elementary Music, and you contend that you are all put at real physical risk by violent, out of control students every single day.

Six year old children.

 

[Unkotare]

Says any administration that spend tens, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars on standardized test preperation, but doesn't install metal detectors at schools.

Metal detectors don’t work. I have taught in schools where every student had to get scanned like they were at the airport and kids still smuggled in guns and knives and drugs and whatever.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Metal detectors don’t work. I have taught in schools where every student had to get scanned like they were at the airport and kids still smuggled in guns and knives and drugs and whatever.

Here are four examples where they did work:

Student caught with gun by detector on first day

On the first day that Mesa High School deployed a high-tech weapons detection system at its entrances, the machines flagged a student attempting to enter with a gun.

www.themesatribune.com

GRPS: Metal detector discovers Ottawa Hills High School student with loaded gun

A 15-year-old student who showed up late to class Tuesday morning triggered the metal detector alarm at the high school's entryway.

www.wzzm13.com

https://www.wistv.com/2023/04/05/metal-detector-stops-student-with-gun-richland-northeast-high-school/

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/04/12/a-gun-was-found-inside-a-forest-hill-high-school-students-backpack/70107890007/

We'll never know how many lives those metal detectors saved.

Sure, if students (and adults) are not required to pass through them to enter the building, they "don't work."

That's why training and enforcement is needed. But that costs money. Money that could go to yet another canned "intervention" program.

 

[Unkotare]

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Sure, if students (and adults) are not required to pass through them to enter the building,...

They were.