GLENDALE : School Board to Buy Metal Detector Wands
The Glendale school board voted Tuesday night to buy eight metal detector wands to check for weapons on campus, three weeks after it expelled six students in four separate incidents for carrying weapons.
The weapons were a starter pistol loaded with blanks, a BB gun, a pellet gun and a buck knife. No one was hurt in any of the incidents.
Each of the eight secondary schools in the Glendale Unified School District will receive a wand, to be used for random checks. The board decided to see how the detectors work before considering whether to buy detectors for the 19 elementary schools.
Calls by parents for tougher security measures came up again in Glendale after the fatal shootings of two students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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