The head of the school safety union in New York City is calling for random weapons screenings at every public school in the city, even elementary schools. MKramerTV reports.
The shooting and the weapons being brought to school prompted Gregory Floyd, the head of the school safety union, to demand more metal detectors for city schoolsOnly 89 of the city's approximately 1,700 schools have permanent metal detectors, Floyd says.
"If you hire enough school safety agents that you have random scanning unannounced... If we have ten a day at ten different schools, that would help. And if you find weapons at that school, you go back, you go back, you go back," he said."Yes, I'll tell you why. You also have adults coming in. You also have children who unfortunately get firearms from their parents," Floyd said.
Meanwhile, Francis Lewis English teacher Christine O'Connell defended the use of metal detectors after the shooting of the three students, including a 14-year-old girl who was shot in the neck and has a bullet lodged in her spine."It's kind of a natural reaction, right, because something very scary happened in the neighborhood and, you know, we want to protect our students and our staff," she said.
Late Friday, Mayor Eric Adams issued a statement saying, again, that keeping students safe is his top priority, and while he didn't commit to increasing random scanning at all schools in the city, he said that random, unannounced scanning takes place every day.
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