Canada will be next....because it has become unsafe at our High Schools in Canada

Seven years after a teen tore through his Cleveland high school — a gun in each hand — wounding two students and two teachers before killing himself, every one of the 90 schools in this Ohio city now has a metal detector at the door. Canada will be next.” .......Not likely. Seven years after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was shot dead at a Toronto high school, the same year as Cleveland’s fatal shooting, Canada’s largest school board still rejects the idea of making students pass through x-ray scanners to come to school. And another tragic stabbing of student Hamid Aminzada at North Albion Collegiate has not changed the board’s mind, said education director Donna Quan. “Metal detectors are not the answer,” she said Wednesday. “We don’t want to create fortresses.” Yet metal detectors have been a major part of the answer for Cleveland, along with intense conflict-resolution programs for children up to Grade 5 “It’s part hardware, part ‘humanware’ where kids gain socio-emotional skills and learn to understand the consequences of their behavior,” said Fultz, noting only one handgun was confiscated at the school last year — “a drastic reduction from what that number used to be. “Schools used to be a soft target. Now they’re a hardened target because of our combined strategy.” Fultz admitted the metal detectors and the security guards who run them “looked threatening at first,” but no more threatening than the metal detectors he said Americans are used to “going through at football games and going to the bank.” The morning bottlenecks have picked up speed, he said, now that “the kids know not to bring scissors or nail files,” let alone weapons. “What’s important is that the student who was afraid to come to school because of weapons and violence can now go to school without fear.”