Long lines at Broward high schools frustrate students, parents

The new metal detectors at all Broward public high schools caused chaos on the first day of school Monday, with long lines frustrating students and parents.

[@omarmartinez3319]

Teaching them how TSA lines are when they become adults

[@deescott8312]

Yup

[@ibmcall]

Yes

[@greeneyelightskin746]

Hahah😂

[@nopenope3678]

Teach them while they’re young

[@mrsleep0000]

Riiiight, has nothing to with them being violent little scumbags, and bringing weapons to school...

[@koro_kokoro]

Wouldn’t be needed if schools actually punished the bullies and not the victim

[@drgirlfriend211]

If parents ALLOWED the schools to punish the kids…. That’s the real issue

[@koro_kokoro]

@@drgirlfriend211 don’t need parents permission to suspend. What you want corporal punishment? The abusers never get even a slap on the wrist, it’s only the one pushed to defend emself

[@savannahm.laurentian1286]

And yet, gods forbid, anything happened at the school, then parents would be distraught and outraged. Sigh.

[@deescott8312]

Right

[@brianholloway6205]

Like what a gun shooting because they let their kid take a gun to school 1:15

[@marrmaladee]

it shouldn't have gotten to the point where we needed them.

[@koro_kokoro]

Those things happen because schools don’t punish bullies… only the victim when pushed to far and defends em self

[@Supersquishyawesomeness]

@@marrmaladeewe don’t need metal detectors in schools.

[@daegaskins3340]

Used to not go to school because of this. It kills morale. No one wants to go thru TSA just to go to the school in the morning.

[@georgemichael9106]

So glad I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s when metal detectors weren’t even invented yet.

[@zumaanandrade3961]

They were invented but we used them for treasure hunting on the beach.

[@patrickm6012]

They were invented and used but this crap is ridiculous.

[@afroabroad]

@@patrickm6012Hold up haven’t multiple inner city schools been doing this for decades? Without extremely long waits for people to get into schools? And they don’t have issues with school shootings either.

[@alannajackson1433]

You're glad you're old?

[@georgemichael9106]

@@alannajackson1433 Yes I wouldn’t want to be young in today’s world.

[@elizabethcramer]

Schools doing what parents SHOULD have done but we’re asleep at the wheel for… taking away phones.

[@ComealivepropheticNLH]

Exactly 👍🏽

[@wendigo333]

Basic button phone for during school then smartphones after graduation. That was how I was raised.

[@deescott8312]

Exactly parents too busy trying to be their kids friends

[@GarciaVega-e1c]

This comment should be pinned!

[@BellaKarim23]

Yep. Even in Highschool my mother would check my backpack, hell college too since I lived at home, but those parents are apparently gone now. You know the mythic ones that actually parented their kid

[@nateh3441]

Perhaps if society had CHOSEN to be better, we wouldn't even need metal detectors. Humanity has FAILED in this regard.

[@s.d.8561]

Safety should always take priority over inconvenience.

[@totallysawthat]

Please read 1984

[@eugenaarnold3965]

I don’t agree. That’s bs and they need to do better

[@GeraldoluizAprendiz]

NO cel phones. I loved this policy.

[@marioeduardoferreiraruiz]

Agreed, finally…some real learning! 🤓

[@chaseelwind1578]

@@marioeduardoferreiraruiz thi bch teecher thin she can just tak my cellulerphon! it not fauir skibidi rizzo

[@melissathompson2048]

with any new technology implementation there will be challenges. just follow the process it’s better to be safe than sorry.

[@dvandal674]

I went to school in the late 90’s. When a major incident occurred, clear/mesh see thru backpack were implemented. But since enough students DIDNT COMPLY, then the use of bags were forbidden during the school day. We had to carry it all and make frequent trips to our locker. Since it was prior to the smart device era..I used to play games on my gameboy color when appropriate.🤷‍♂️ Then Columbine happened and a bunch of fools around the city would make prank phone calls from the pay phones at the school and ruin the school day with the staff implementing safety measures and the police doing their investigations at various schools….then all the pay phones were removed. If you needed to make a call home, had to use the front office phone with permission.

[@dmo848]

I remember all that crazy stuff and signing in to use the bathroom. All that was bs

[@AtomicEy]

deciding to have a child nowadays is clearly the wrong choice

[@marioeduardoferreiraruiz]

Absolutely!

[@ShimmySha]

Agreed

[@JayTee2985]

100% agree.

[@LonnieLoveGhettoFoodie]

Not at all. Have many kid’s. Protect your legacy

[@marioeduardoferreiraruiz]

@@LonnieLoveGhettoFoodie And your comment is pure garbage, but your life…your deal. Just stop spreading the disease man.

[@deathvalleydemon41]

I have been saying for years that security measures need to be implemented. Too many school shootings have happened and nothing done about it.

[@David-bz1ou]

Agreed

[@Techtonix954]

Do you think metal detectors would help? If someone is showing up at school with a gun... who is going to stop them from going through a metal detector?

[@David-bz1ou]

@@Techtonix954could work

[@afroabroad]

@@Techtonix954Umm why haven’t you heard of a school shooting in Baltimore or Detroit?

[@bsgvlog5640]

​@@Techtonix954 the metal detectors along with the Gun Free signs will stop them!

[@ano070602]

School districts are so clueless. They act as if they know what they are doing. When in reality they do not.

[@homemini9254]

Prisons

[@tinajoerossignol]

If kids were behaving, not fighting, not on phones during class, not bringing weapons to school, schools wouldn't have to do this. Everyone screaming for the schools to do something to protect their kids, kids screaming they're scared at school should be so happy the school is doing about the only thing they can do.

[@Distress.]

It's crazy how Broward is just a consistent embarrassment to this state.

[@kristyfolsom3218]

Do adjustments need to be made? Sure. Was this inconvenient? Absolutely. But as a public high school teacher with my own children in a public school, this is not too much. If the unthinkable happens and these measures aren't in place, then the loudest voices will be asking why something wasn't done beforehand. I love teaching (in year 19), but I have a family to go home to and all of my students deserve to feel safe at school and return home to their families as well.

[@Sidicas]

The kcon experience now available at your local school! 😅😅😅😅😅 spending hours outside in the morning .. waking up hours earlier just to spend more hours waiting in line 😅😅

[@jbar_85]

No surprises here. These are the same district employees who closed down for a tropical depression in Tampa area to milk a 4 day weekend.

[@CraigC-h6b]

How is it the same district employees in Broward county and Hillsborough county? You are obviously not from Florida. 🙄

[@jbar_85]

@@CraigC-h6b I live in Broward boo. Last year a TD came north of Tampa area and headed NE. Broward School District closed and it was a Friday and they happened to have a holiday on Monday. Moochers. Miami and Palm beach county stayed open. You don’t close when you’re not anywhere near the cone let alone a TD! Just a bunch of snowflake moochers. 🤣

[@rondas7772]

Who cares if the had a 4 day weekend, good teachers need more time off with these unruly students

[@jbar_85]

@@rondas7772 some people don’t get days off and do care. The parents care too- most were shocked and caught off guard last minute for the ridiculous decision and then had to race to find someone to watch their child. Especially for a TD in another completely different area of the state that wasn’t traveling in our direction. No common sense nor brains at Broward County School District. Only the unions controls the shots. These teachers are constantly off for a little breeze each year while the rest of the world has to work. Moochers. They complain that they don’t make money. Funny- maybe if you worked you would get paid…

[@katarinad1309]

@@jbar_85they are responsible for thousands of kids they made a decision that you don’t like to bad. If something bad had happened and they hadn’t closed you’d be here complaining about that seek professional help you need it.

[@TJMORGAN101]

I would never want to move to Broward Fl WORST CITY EVER.

[@jennifercummins9462]

My daughters school in Miami does clear backpacks which at first i thought was odd , but now i thinks its a better solution then that

[@elib7311]

Wow…are they checking into school….or prison??

[@PillowEgg]

I’m glad my high school didn’t have metal detectors. Growing up in Canada we have a no guns law. In the US where you can buy a gun or fire arm at a local Walmart is crazy and the increase in mental health issues really propels this issue.

[@jasonhare8540]

Sounds like they don't have enough schools if they're that overcrowded. We had metal detectors back in the '90s and didn't have this kind of trouble. We had plenty of schools in my area to take on the load. My area pays for education and considers it an important resource. This county clearly doesn't. ....

[@nyancatnatalie]

I remember it being bad even when we had flip phones or keyboard phones. Texting was bad then. Now it's out of control.

[@djmooncheeks1515]

No celphones breaks ADA for diabetics with CGMs that uses aps. I can't wait for the first lawsuit.

[@salcedomark]

online k-12 is free, just saying

[@user-cg3rq4jq6m]

They don't want me to teach my child schooling. They will never make it out of middle school.😅😅

[@mr.borkborkrandom3412]

Has its drawbacks cant learn how to socialized

[@Leo82870]

So is social isolation

[@user-cg3rq4jq6m]

@Leo82870 At this point, social isolation is not a bad thing. Look at what humans have become. A bunch of freaks.

[@BenMonares]

Yeah but you won’t experience fun school events

[@idjilju2835]

Wait two lines of metal detectors to get 100+ kids into the building..

[@eugenaarnold3965]

Crazy work

[@rickazca774]

This is exactly what is needed.

[@mogulmade]

Making children go through TSA every day is insane. So they shootings will happen in the line and not inside? Who is protecting this long line of kids? Broward, get it together. And it's all fine for the superintendant to show up for a press shot on the first day, we won't see him out there again. In this heat? The schools need to do better.

[@viksox13]

Parents need to do better.

[@bahdivondutch]

They been doing this up north i went to Waukegan High in IL. Sunshine, Rain or snow we had to wait in line to go thru metal detectors sometimes your greeted by a K9 at the door .

[@deescott8312]

Good 👍

[@BrizzyTV_]

Not mad at having the metal detectors in school. It’s a safety hazard but implementing a staggering time for students to arrive will help with this issue.

[@electrodynamicorb6548]

Like a prison

[@ibapreppie]

They won't be frustrated if something bad happens

[@smorris281]

These metal detectors are a waste of money. You’re not going to stop anyone from brining guns or other weapons to school, they will find a way.

[@Charmingpreppylife]

Breaking news: parents who poorly parented are shocked when school does lol

[@rawr5700]

this they fault for acting like a fool anyways

[@user-cg3rq4jq6m]

So true

[@briannastultz1468]

Poor babies. What’s unacceptable is when students don’t follow the rules and then make the process longer.

[@joannclark9664]

How sad it came to this to educate our children.

[@a13xw71]

It gets better. My HS School had metal detectors and XRAY machines. You had to get to school like 30 minutes early. This was before 2012 too. Anyone who thinks this doesn't work, trust me, it does. My school saw a larg decrease in violence inside the school.

[@kevbrix9686]

I'm so glad I'm out of school now. This is soooo sad.

[@eryn_282]

Where I’m from my schools had metal detectors never thought anything of it. Going to other schools and people just walk in not checking nothing is crazy. Especially with todays kids all schools need them🤷🏽‍♀️

[@wendigo333]

My issue with the cellphone policy is the fact that if a parent had an emergency and a student is the emergency contact. What is their policy on that? There should be exceptions under certain circumstances.

[@24esjay-24]

My mom had 4 kids. She had to call THE SCHOOL only 1x when there was an emergency. That means over a period of 20 years she called the school once! I have 3 kids - 1 still in school. If I had/have to pick them up early or if they needed/need medical or psychological attention the school called/calls me or I called/call them! VERY SIMPLE 💥

[@wendigo333]

@user-cb6re8yd8e I'm talking disabled single parent that is physically disabled and names the oldest child as the emergency contact. All my other relatives are scattered across the US. So I'm the only one his doctors could contact in an emergency. In short not a child related emergency but a disabled single parent emergency.

[@RRLV434]

@@wendigo333that is an extremely specific case 😂

[@wendigo333]

@RRLV434 well. It has happened. I was such a case. My dad is wheelchair bound and I was listed as the first emergency contact since 11th grade. When a teacher tried to take my phone they got threatened with legal action by my dad and his doctor. Also the phone i had at the time was government issued so there's that. But there might be other cases similar to mine and they need to have a policy for that or lawyers might go to extremes.

[@ronburgundy2457]

What could you possibly do in an actual emergency that dialing 911 couldn't be utilized for if it were a true emergency. The school will be notified like how its been done longer than you've been alive. Don't forget thers was a time before cell phones and you're not the first person to ever be someone's emergency contact so stop pretending like this would be some group breaking issue.

[@jblovsoccer]

I like the no cell phone rule all schools should be that way

[@gregorovyc]

sucks to be them

[@heatherburrell8412]

Just another reason to home school….. do not give the government control over the education or mind of your children. Better quality, individualized attention…… home schooling is the only option in this low quality cesspool of the US education system.

[@SA-fo5lc]

Waiting around in lines is what our future is😢

[@Biancalovestosew98]

Dang.

[@kenyonbissett3512]

The irritation of cellphone withdrawal must be overwhelming.

[@Happyladybug143]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@viksox13]

I've heard giving up heroin cold turkey is easier than going 2 hours without a cellphone

[@kenyonbissett3512]

@@viksox13 I believe it.

[@taOGrimace]

Notice its in inner-city schools. Raise you kids to be kids instead of little monsters, then we wouldn't be here. Metal detectors indicate that they had issues with weapons before, so its not surprising that parents are the ones angry about it and not the kids. The cellphone rule is new and i am looking forward to the results of that, and am actually surprised that kids are cooperating on that one.

[@philb3717]

Let the kids enjoy, for most of them, this is the peak of their lives.

[@CraigC-h6b]

They can enjoy after school hours. Don’t like it homeschool them and let them have their phones out while you are trying to teach them. They need to learn to follow rules.

[@user-cg3rq4jq6m]

Umm... They can shut their faces and wait. Builds character. Bunch of babies

[@CraigC-h6b]

@@user-cg3rq4jq6m exactly! Thats why most of them can’t abide by the law now because they are being cradled like babies.

[@jeremiah3749]

I dont understand the rule that they cant have phones at lunch. Lunch has and always is loud. People have always talked to their friends during lunch. Then the staff complains that the lunchroom is too loud when they try to fit 200+ kids in a cafeteria 🤦

[@user-cg3rq4jq6m]

@jeremiah3749 Go argue with the school. We don't have time to argue with you. If you don't understand, then you need to go find someone to entertain you.

[@michael198427]

Welcome to america

[@57_Triumph]

Funny how the length of the line is unacceptable for school, but not unacceptable for a concert or Disney.

[@eugenaarnold3965]

Concert and Disney is not an everyday thing

[@zuziiice8907]

You know, my dad has told me the US is slowly growing to a Country sized prison.. i am not surprised he was right since he was right about 80% of the time.

[@andydiaz7296]

Homeschooling, these teachers don’t care about anything. The whole school board system and teachers unions need to be revamped.

[@jbar_85]

@@andydiaz7296 they need to remove the union

[@kristinesharp6286]

My kid is a senior in high school in another state. I seem to recall a year or longer depending on where you were and the rules about being sent home every district insisting students sit in front of a monitor for 6-7 hours from home. To stay home if lower than a fever. Now the districts are worried about attendance and cell phones? Really?

[@nancygreen1655]

Naaahh, I would’ve been back at home in the bed! 😴

[@eugenaarnold3965]

Me too😂I would not be standing in that line. I’m sorry

[@TR1_93]

Good luck with the Cell phone rule. That will be the most broken rule in history without a doubt.

[@ko1187]

They need to think of a better way to make it more efficient. Safety is important but so is getting an education. In high school we had metal detectors for like 2 weeks because of a rumor that someone from another school was going to go around shooting students. Note no shooting at that high school has ever happened to date. With the security I would end up missing half of first period and my high school has a small population compare to other schools like my graduating class was of 111 students. Like I’m not against it but think of a way to make it more effective.

[@eugenaarnold3965]

Exactly

[@jameshurley224]

😅 seriously stupid, they definitely didn't think this through

[@marcusinfinity9386]

Looks like the dystopian future many 80s films thought it would be like

[@blackqueengenius7341]

TSA at school? Hell NAWH

[@nickmorgan413]

My high school in WV had to use metal detectors for the last half of my senior year in 2006 due to some really bad threats. Thankfully, we were a small school and it only pushed class start time back half an hour.

[@enjay5696]

The phone rule is a HUGE liability to the safety of students. Most students find out about a possible shooter through social media and texts. Imagine being shot and wanting to call your parents or warn someone…now you can’t. It’s almost as if the school wants the children at a higher risk.

[@LonnieLoveGhettoFoodie]

Not at all 😂

[@24esjay-24]

I’m a teacher - that’s not how school shooting policies work at all. Besides, if the students only need to put their phones in “airplane mode” or “shut off” that means their phones are in close proximity. They would be able to access them in an emergency situation.

[@LP-ct9nk]

Many kids just tell the teachers they don’t have phones for this reason. It’s stupid and with laptops having messaging/calling capabilities anyone who wants to be distracted during class is going to be cellphone ban or not. I’ll also add that in college phones are out 25/8. Teachers don’t care as long as you’re cool with whatever grade you get at the end of the semester. Dress codes are non existent as well. A lot of the high school “rules” are for show and don’t apply in the real world which means teachers could be focusing time on policies that actually matter like educating

[@EmperorNefarious1]

It takes 10 seconds to turn off airplane mode if not less. These are kids not Grandmas, they know how to use a phone.

[@knuclear200x]

At this point, I'd use that time to triple check my homework or study further for a test at home or other shaded area so I don't stand in a long line. Not my fault I'm late or delays happen, but anything to avoid even one shooting.

[@eugenaarnold3965]

I am sorry this is ridiculous. They need to figure out a better plan. An hour in line is an hour being taken away from learning. And I’m not complaining about keeping the kids safe. But to stand in line like your at an amusement park is crazy. And as a parent they would hear my mouth. And my daughter has detectors to at her school but they are not in a line for over an hour, no where close to that

[@bunnycaringhoots5202]

"Im gonna talk to my friend" excuse me as someone who was a loner in school all my friends bullied me so i found the most Secluded area in my school and read a book and ate lunch

[@alainoliveros5096]

lol they don’t mind waiting hours for concerts or Halloween horror nights though

[@xforce3648]

I’m sure they would mind, especially for those events.

[@shadtannn]

@@xforce3648dawg you realize you literally have to wait in line for those things 😂 and no one ever makes a big deal

[@xforce3648]

@@shadtannn dawg you realize that people are very excited and have paid a lot of money for concerts. They wouldn’t be so patient to wait in line 😂

[@mogulmade]

No one wants to go through TSA daily. Get a grip!

[@BenMonares]

Bruh at Halloween Horror Nights, their security measures are trash. They made me take off my belt like wtf

[@cooljimz0079]

Better than nyc schools it’s like hell up here

[@carlosalenduran4630]

But you know what kids it's better to be safe than sorry

[@sessionstu]

sad

[@iceydicey77]

With how many school shootings have happened its better safe than sorry for those metal detectors

[@Thao-nw6bz]

It’s a first day so it’s going to be hectic. Now you know so be there early and be prepared. Have your stuff out of the bag so you don’t hold up the line. It’s better to be safe then sorry.

[@nomaderic]

When i went to school in houston we had to go through metal detectors and it didnt take anywhere near this long.

[@ItsJustJayla]

It’s like they are going through TSA

[@Jboog742]

I wonder, if these metal detectors, emit any radiation? Then being subjected to that, on a daily basis.....What will be, the long-term, side-effects?

[@sal_joker10]

This happen in NYC. Student pass the metal detector at a random time

[@Doodles_18]

I didn’t know that schools in America allowed you to keep your cell phone in class

[@Doodles_18]

Cell phones in class isn’t a thing where I live

[@southkiddJ]

It’s like they’re boarding a plane. It’s sad that it has come to this in society. It’s even sadder that students aren’t standing up to this crap. School shooters normally are outsiders not involved with the school. So what exactly will this stop. Not just this school but any school in general.

[@bsgvlog5640]

I'm skeptical that the school administration is THAT dumb. There must have been incidents of violence within the school coming from the students that the media failed to report on.

[@brandiwhitley5798]

Guess Columbine doesn't qualify as a school shooting then since it was caused by a student. Is that what you're saying? Because that's the stupidest argument I've ever heard.

[@williamwalker4129]

Love our new country!

[@BellaKarim23]

Plastic backpacks make it quicker. Cellphones finally. Make another entrance to take the strain. Yeah its an anoyance but ut is what it is and new policies do take time to become efficient. And yes I know what people will say about privacy and plastic backpacks. Cry me a river. All that is supposed to be in the bag is school supplies and a laptop which can be hidden in a laptop sleeve and for girl a small bag for their period things. That's all I've ever had in mine and even in hs my mother checked my bag randomly to ensure that was what was leaving. I used a plastic backpack for a semester while in a college in the US for a sememster course. My only issue was the 2 huge textbooks that would not fit in ANY bag, considerung they were each like 30lbs. But fortunately we were given both the pdf and the print book so I took the pdf and used the print at home.

[@BryanBear5050]

Government expenses rise, cuts need to be made, schools go virtual to save on bus drivers and school maintenance. Kids get "educated" at home online. "Education" drops so low that no one can read or do math yet the government saves money and can now control more people. Just my prediction.

[@rbrtpongo]

the reason i have a phone is because i have sensory issues and because i have autism. I used my phone to listen to music and to work on autism pictures and projects.

[@Biancalovestosew98]

I’m already afraid of teenagers.

[@arielperez3613]

Byeee this is like Cobra Kai after the school fight scene 😅

[@suzzylouloudougherty5237]

If I had to do it over again I was just homeschool my kids

[@blue_moon6490]

Oh well, they will live through the day.

[@celebrityrog]

Do you want to end up like MSD HS or do you want it to be safe? I learned in the 1990s from that movie The Substitute that Florida schools are some of the worst and most violent in the nation. It's just a movie? No man, the 80s were actually like that and today is just like that too if you gotta have metal detectors.

[@amilton1911]

The nerve having to wake up early lol so horrible

[@elia5371]

Why?? They all look so angelical, they never did anything wrong!😂

[@anthonybricker8634]

It looks like a line at Disneyworld

[@rbrtpongo]

I think its okay for students with autism and other disability to have there phones incase if they have a sensory issue. the problem is with phones is when students are on there phones alot it makes it hard to study and when someone tries to talk to you and your don't listen it makes it hard as well to.

[@keilasanchez1518]

See when I was in school, I talked to my friend’s even while on the phone. I think this rule is just stupid. Phones not during class, okay, but any other time should be allowed. I use to draw on my tablet during class cause it helped me focus. Also I read a lot on my phone as well while taking notes. Not every kid is the same, it’s all about self control. Besides, what is there to really talk about with your friends, NOBODY is that interesting 😂 especially nowadays…

[@RickSaunders-r8v]

The video clearly shows the issue.

[@Pandabee11]

So first day watch for the time when the line ends, and the next day bag yourself an extra hour in bed!

[@MS-st1zb]

Better safe than sorry. New dangerous world.

[@angiescher2444]

If children would behave this wouldn't be necessary

[@zacharychristman171]

This school is so paranoid 😂😂😂

[@Zaxphion]

How about don't scan bags and just leave phones in our pocket.