Metal Detectors or God and Parent Detectors?
by Michael Leaser
September 23, 2008
It seems that schools are increasingly employing costly metal detectors in efforts to deter students from bringing knives or other weapons to school, as recent reports from Chicago and Pittsburgh area high schools remind us.
According to the federal survey data described in the latest Mapping America, a much more cost-effective way to prevent suspension and expulsion offenses such as these is an intact married family that worships frequently.
Family Research Council is a 501c(3) non-profit organization. If this post has been helpful to you, please consider a gift to help us continue to advance Faith, Family, and Freedom.
Comments
And trusting pupils to behave is just as ludicrous – you can’t realisticly expect every student to undergo a life-changing conversion.
Perhaps the two approaches can compliment each other, but to rely on just one or the other is a mistake. As long as the weapons remain a concern, the detectors will have to stay.
By: Stew | September 24, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I absolutely agree. Natural human nature will always try to find a way around, under, over, or through any rule or law that is in its way in order to get what it wants. The only truly effective restraint against any type of bad behavior is MORAL restraint. That is the foundation upon which all laws must work. To try to impose further restrictions while allowing the moral restraint to crumble is just ludicrous.