Posted on 01/26/2025 5:52:40 PM PST by thegagline
The Nashville high school where a teen gunman killed a fellow student last week had no metal detectors — apparently because administrators think they could be racist.
A former board member told The Post that the misguided administrators are responsible for keeping them out even over many parents’ objections.
“I knew this day was gonna happen,” said Fran Bush, formerly a Metro Nashville Public Schools board member.
Bush, who served on the MNPS board from 2018 to 2022, said she pushed for metal detectors throughout her tenure but that district Director Adrienne Battle “didn’t want to hear it” — even as parents backed calls for metal detectors to keep their kids safe.
“I knew it was gonna happen just because it’s like a free open door, everybody coming in,” she said of the Tennessee district’s schools, including Antioch High, where 17-year-old shooter Solomon Henderson murdered a 16-year-old classmate Wednesday. *** One of the studies shared by MNPS said metal detectors disproportionately target students of color, too — a detail that other studies over the years have focused on, with findings suggesting that instills a sense of fear for minority students. *** But Bush characterized such “unintended consequences” as mere excuses — calling them “a bunch of bull.
“There’s no study [that] shows metal detectors don’t work,” she said. “If that was the case, then we won’t have them in our airports, sports games, we wouldn’t have them in all these places that require security,” Bush said.
What’s more, Bush said, the students themselves told her they wanted metal detectors when she was doing her own research on the proposal.
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Everything is officially racist!
These fags and hags “teaching” our children in their publik skrewels are supposed to be educated. PROVE IT!
Fire the Administrators...they are idiots
the truth is the metal detectors wouldn’t have stopped anything or changed anything.
The guy could simply have run over a group of students with his car and done as much if not more damage.
Principal Meno Raschuus says, “the child who died is a martyr for the cause”
Principal to parents:
“The 16 year old died fully vaccinated against Covid, dedicated to following climate change regulations and to not being a racist. You guys have that to console yourselves.”
So the experts are saying that Blacks are more likely to bring weapons to school than are whites?
[[apparently because administrators think they could be racist: ‘Bunch of bull’]]
SUE the ever lovin heck out of them! Their IGNORANCE put people at risk!
IF business owners can be sued because they didn’t correctly foresee some workplace hazard, then school officials who INTENTIONALLY make ignorant decisions that endanger defenseless kids should be sued into bankruptcy!
Why is the NYP referring to the “gunman” when the murderer was a woman? (Never mind, forgot the NYP doesn’t know the difference between girls and boys in all of their articles, silly me)
All schools do not have such detectors. Nashville being such a large city the detectors should be expected, but not a given.
We don’t need metal detectors in our schools. We need to permanently remove those who have caused us to think we do.
“So the experts are saying that Blacks are more likely to bring weapons to school than are whites?”
I used to take guns to school all the time,
my culture frowns on killing unless in self defense.
But my culture has Moms AND Dads that raise you,
not just Mom, gangs, and a welfare state.
It’s culture and lack of fear, there should be armed teachers. But when I was growing up we had a gun club in school, guys with ride the bus with their rifles and shotguns.
I used to go to school with a 10/22 to go squirrel hunting after class. It was normal behavior in rural Wisconsin.
Laws is racist.
AMEN. Absolutely spot on, and well stated.
had no metal detectors — apparently because administrators think they could be racist.
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Anyone who would suggest such utter nonsense is a very sick person in urgent need of psychiatric evaluation, and should be fitted with an ankle tracking device.
We had an old west day when I was in high school.
I took a Colt SAA peacemaker (unloaded). No one ever said anything. That was in the sixties
We don’t need metal detectors in our schools. We need to permanently remove those who have caused us to think we do.
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Huh?
The redneck kids from the farm area at my school had rifles in the gun racks in their trucks. Why not? Now they use dogs to look for guns in the parking lots
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