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Aftter 9/11 we secured our airports. It's past time to secure our schools.

Start with metal detectors but there are problems with them too. You need people to operate them.

Student key cards would be too slow when you have a thousand students all arriving at the same time.

Following high-profile incidents of school violence, such as school shootings or stabbing incidents, it is not uncommon for some parents, the media and others in a school-community to call for metal detectors in response to such incidents. Parents understandably want some type of “guarantee” that these types of high-profile incidents will not occur again. Some falsely believe that metal detectors can provide that guarantee.

Even a well-run school metal detector program is not 100% foolproof. Any security technology is only as effective as the human element behind the equipment.
We know that the first and best line of defense against school violence is a well-trained, highly-alert school staff and student body, and that the most common way we find out about weapons in schools is when students report such information to adults they have relationships with and trust.

In a September of 2008 I-Team investigative news story in Cleveland, local CBS affiliate station reporters walked into one Cleveland school multiple times with a hidden camera and found the two metal detectors turned off and the school’s security officer nowhere near the front entrance.
The news story indicated that officials at the school had intentionally not run the detectors to avoid delaying traffic into the building.
The district’s security chief, during a subsequent interview, stated the school officer did not follow district standards. The school’s principal was interviewed and declined to explain on camera.

Also in September of 2008, in Milwaukee, a 15-year-old female student was stabbed several times in a restroom on the same day a $50,000 metal detector debuted at the school.
Officials reportedly said that the detector was only used on tardy students that day while staff were being trained on using the detector.
It was unknown whether the stabbing suspects had or had not been screened.

Earlier in 2008 in Memphis, a TV news reporter interviewed a teacher who indicated that school officials ran students through a metal detector that they allegedly knew was broken even after two school shooting incidents in the district.

http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school-metal-detectors/