Student questions legality of metal detectors at school

WTNH Television ^ | 9/20/06 | Puppage

[Andonius_99]

CT ping!

[Axhandle]

Ah, the stupidity of youth.

[Arcy]

The parent of this child should tell him to shut up about the metal detector. Remind the child he is there to study and learn. Not to bring about legal action.

[HEY4QDEMS]

A student's refusal to walk through a safety detector earns him a trip home.

Must have had a test that day.

[stylin19a]

good for this kid....

[xcamel]

Somebody please post a picture of a "safety detector".....

[Fresh Wind]

Betcha the kid's parents are leftist lawyers.

[cryptical]

Betcha the kid's parents are leftist lawyers.

So now we're ceding defense of the Bill of Rights to the left? Maybe you're one of those "conservatives" that don't mind government doing whatever it feels like "for the children".

[MAD-AS-HELL]

What the school needs to do is find the two or three disgruntaled kids planning on staging a school shooting and set a date for them to do it. They then tell all the kids except for this one moron not to come to school. On that day, the kids with guns come into the school to only to find Mr. 4th Amendment the only one in class. Let's see how he likes his 4th amendment then.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Not really. Passing thru a detector could be argued as not being a search since no one is actually searching him.

[P-40]

unreasonable searches and seizures

It will give the youngster the chance to learn more about the word unreasonable. :)

[Menehune56]

My first thought too.

[Alouette]

Does he have a "prince albert" or something?

[1rudeboy]

"The parent of this child should tell him to shut up about the metal detector. Remind the child he is there to study and learn. Not to bring about frivolous legal action."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The elephant in the closet in this situation is that public schools have become dangerous prisons.

The reason metal detectors are required is that the purpose of public schools is not to educate young people, but to provide secure, well-paying jobs for members of teachers' unions.

Metal detectors are not necessary in private/religious schools, because dangerous students who have no interest in learning are not present in them.

Unionized schools want the highest head count possible because the get $$$$$ for each student, to the tune of $10,000 average per year.

Public education is socialism, and the end result of socialism is always high-cost, low quality and danger, just like the socialized medical system is becoming.

When half the inner-city students graduating from high school can't even read, it becomes obvious that "free" education is valued by its recipient at exactly its cost to them.

This kid is right. He has been failed by a public education system that cannot even keep him safe from dangerous low-lifes without treating HIM like a criminal.

Abolish public education. It's for the children.

[DBrow]

The kid has a point. The "authorities" should not have the power to declare a permanent emergency granting them special powers.

The kid is objecting not only to the metal detector, but to the requirement for searches as well.

If the school has a written policy then everyone knows what to expect and can play by the rules, and if it is written, the legal stance can more easily be discussed.

I dislike having to follow unwritten rules- my years with the Gumby gang were very frustrating.

[DBrow]

"public schools have become dangerous prisons."

That's why they have "lockdowns" at the drop of a hat, just like the county pen.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Please see post #16.

[gcruse]

"So now we're ceding defense of the Bill of Rights to the left?"\

Are minors entitled to the full scope of the BOR? I don't think so.