Poll: Does your local high school have metal detectors?

I voted yes but they didn't until they had a shooting that killed one student in the spring. It wasn't random and was retaliation. Completely senseless.

I was amazed that they did not have metal detectors. After everything that has gone on.

I’m not sure if they have them at the high school where we currently live, but they had them at the high school I attended in the city way back in the early ‘80’s already. We also had an off duty police liaison officer always in the building on school days. There were some kids he knew on a first name basis because they were constantly getting in trouble.

There aren’t any metal detectors at the middle school my kid attends, but both there and the elementary school she previously attended have a bulletproof glass vestibule entryway between the school building and the office with cameras. Everyone is supposed to be buzzed in by someone in the office to get into the school, and sign in at the office. I think that’s kind of hit or miss though because I’ve watched people coming out actually hold the door open for others coming in, bypassing the office completely which IMO totally defeats the purpose of having the security doors. 🙄

My kids’ high school no, but I went to more of an urban high school with gangs and we had a police officer always on campus but I don’t think we had metal detectors.

Nope. I'm in Canada where we take the approach Merge suggests - keep the guns away from crazy people. Works pretty well.

We don't have metal detectors but we have guards at the entrance to our schools. I say this not really knowing what sort of security measures (except a gate and a guard) have been put in place at Sandy Hook School, because obviously that is all on the down-low.

Same. And some security staff, checking people in and out etc... 

My two oldest attended/attend two different public high schools in Seattle, neither of which has a metal detector.

I'm not sure?

DD graduated three years ago from the neighboring town where we lived before we moved here.  They didn't have them then.  We moved five miles away to another school district and I have no idea if they do or not.  We are in a small town semi rural area.  My guess is no. 

No, but we are small.

We just had students report a kid had a gun in their car. Cops and all, it was an airport that the idiot had spray painted

No. Our high school is the rival to Oxford HS. Oxford and our school are now only allowing clear backpacks, but no metal detectors. Many parents are screaming for metal detectors, though. I think both measures are band aids on a much bigger problem.

My local school does not, another school I worked in did have metal detectors. Same city just not a great neighborhood. The process was pretty smooth.

South Africa is the third most dangerous country in the world, and six South African cities are in the Top 20 most dangerous cities in the world. Guns, both registered and unregistered, are very common. Schools do not have metal detectors or police officers on site.

Some background:
There have been 5 school shootings in South Africa since 1994 with a total of 8 deaths including the perpetrators. Two of the shooters were teachers who shot colleagues, one was the boyfriend of a staff member who entered the school and shot his girlfriend. In another shooting, thought to be gang-related, a student was shot as he was entering the school premises. No arrests were made, so the shooter was probably not a student. The remaining shooting was a student who shot and injured other students.

There are none in our district, and while I can't speak for every nearby district, I have visited a few that also do NOT have them.

Some of it will depend on where you live. Here our high schools aren't in one or two buildings with limited doors. It would be way too costly to put detectors on every door and a kid could still easily stash something outside. I do worry that at some point it will be too costly to NOT have them at the doors but my fingers stay crossed.