Metal Detectors in Schools

Imagine that your child attends a public school, as the majority of children in the nation do. One day, you’re not feeling too well, so you decide to relax, take a sick day and stay home from work. You’re in front of the TV, watching some lousy daytime soap, when the local news station breaks through with a report of a shooting inside the local school, where your teenage son goes. Worst case …

…sound good in theory, but would never work in the “real world”. For example, it sounds right that in order to eliminate poverty in our country, the government could simply print a lot of paper money and distribute. But anyone can tell you that that could not and would not work. In the same way, metal detectors seem like the way to protect our schools, but actually carrying out the plan is much too unrealistic.