often you see after a school shooting more metal detectors, clear backpacks and drills. If a school is given this kind of emergency resources to make their kids safer, is that the best use of them. It's not the best use of them.And all of that security ends up being kind of theatrical, right. Like it makes you feel better maybe, but if a student is the perpetrator, it doesn't do anything. And so you're better off spending resources on things like teams that communicate with each other, right.School-based me ...

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