Caldari, Metal detectors can be adjusted for sensitivity so as not to alarm due to a bobby pin. Also, if not metal detectors, how about the scanners like the ones used at airports. How does the inconvenience and expense of having to scan 1,500+ students 4 or 5 times a day compare with the possibility of having dead students. It's a simple risk versus consequences computation. And what's wrong with requiring students to remain on campus during the school day? That would reduce the scanning load considerably. Also, when I wrote that staff and faculty could be trained and armed, I did not mean the entire staff and faculty. Those that were, would have to be volunteers and would become a deterent simply by the public knowing they existed (but who they are). And even if an attack was launched and some students were injured or killed before armed faculty could arrive, the carnage would be less than if there were no armed response and the attack allowed to continue.

Lol, good luck with metal detectors. In order for metal detectors to be an effective security measure, anyone who sets it off would need to remove items and/or be searched until they walk through without setting it off. The idea of implementing this in a high school, or any school for that matter is absolutely laughable. You are talking about searching 1,500+ students 4 or 5 times a day. At all doors. As for staff having guns. 1) 99% of them would quit if they were told that they needed to start carrying a gun. 2) this wouldn't stop an attack unless all staff were carrying weapons. in a high school the chances of an attacker starting an attack in an area where there just happens to be one of the gun carrying teachers are low. an attacker would have more than enough time to cause many casualties before one of the gun carrying teachers/staff got there.

When it comes to keeping students safe, Eugene's 4j has a problem. (Springfield seems to be moving in the right direction.) The district concentrates on things that make students "feel" safe, like being more aware, rather than implementing solutions that will actually make students safer. Those solutions would include high chainlink fences that completely surround the school. Access to the school via a limited number of doors. Metal detectors at each of those doors monitored by school staff. Security cameras throughout the school. And finally, hand picked staff and faculty who's identities are secret but know to those selected, who are trained as first responders (SWAT) and authorized and required to carry concealed firearms on school grounds and use those firearms to defend students in the event of an attack. If some of these things are not funded by the citizens of Eugene and then implemented by the school district (not necessarily all of them)then it will be obvious that keeping students safe is really not a priority, just a talking point.