LA School Report: Commentary: High school student wants LAUSD to end random searches for weapons
The justification behind searches is that they protect students, teachers, and administrators by keeping weapons and violence out of schools. But less than 4 percent of schools in America use random metal detector searches, according to federal data cited by the Washington Post. Most districts have figured out that schools that conduct searches are no safer than those that don’t. Blacks and Latinos are often blamed for the school violence when 90 percent of elementary and high school shootings were done by mostly White, and often upper-middle class, Americans, according to Political Research Associates.