Do Metal Detectors in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?

School security guards and metal detectors in a New York City school Najlah Feanny / Corbis On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed their jackets, gloves, and belts, shivering as they wait to pass through a metal detector and send their backpacks through an X-ray machine.

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