No guns in school. That seems like a reasonable enough demand from students, but some school administrators feel that installing metal detectors contributes to an atmosphere of mistrust.

I'll buy the issue of the practicality of screening students, (for now --it is a surmountable problem) but if even if one student has a real fear of getting shot in school, administrators who haven't done every thing in their power to keep guns out of school, even if it fosters mistrust, have failed in their duty.

If kids are afraid of getting shot during classes, nothing else in the experience of school has meaning.