Daily News | Some N.J. schools are now mandating clear backpacks, one of many antiviolence approaches used nationwide
Beginning this year, a North Jersey school district will require all students to use clear backpacks as a way to keep banned items out of schools.mirrors a national trend to implement precautionary safety measures, including “bleed control” bills and threat assessment teams, following the May massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
“If we want to deal with our drug or gun problem in America, this is not the best way to deal with it,” Margaret Betz, an assistant philosophy professor at Rutgers University-Camden, said Thursday. “I don’t think this is a justified reason.” Camden School Superintendent Katrina McCombs said the district has no plans to mandate mesh or clear bags, but it will still require security screenings and ID badges for students and staff at its middle and high schools.The Philadelphia School District scans students’ backpacks at its high schools but is not considering mandating transparent bags, said spokesperson Christina Clark. Visitors must pass through a metal detector and their bags must be scanned, too, she said.
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