Wilson is a time bomb and if the district is willing to use metal detectors at football games, then they may be close to admitting that metal detectors are needed at school, everyday. Scoff and laugh if you will, but deterrents are useful and do help. Before you ramble on about things you don't know much about, think how you'd feel getting pushed around every day at Wilson or if your child got beat up in a fight or is being threatened on campus. You'd at least want to feel like when they were on campus, they were safe. Tens of people were reported to have been denied access to the last football game due to failing security measures - that is a lot of people and by deterring them from bringing unneeded objects into the game, the environment was safer.

Taking active measures now is important. Reacting to crimes and putting systems in place quickly is expensive too and throwing money at problems after the fact is not as satisfying as being able to say up front, hey, we're on it, using people, using technology, being proactive, taking reasonable actions to stem the tide of violence. We're deterring students from bringing weapons to campus. The outside world is not a controlled environment, but when you are on campus, we are doing everything we can to safe guard you and to provide an environment where you can grow and develop as a person, not just survive as a person who sometimes has to run or hide or keep you head down and your mouth shut. These are not the words I would hear from LBUSD say with a straight face or clear conscious if spoken from a position of knowledge. Ask a Wilson student how well they are supervised at lunch with 4,000 kids roaming the quad. They'll tell you. The kids always know more than the adults in these situations.