The superintendent and several board members spoke of a range of other responses, such adding more cameras and reducing access to doors, both of which have been done. The District 202 administration is against adding airport-style devices, because of logistical issues such as the possibility of long, time-consuming lines, along with the perception that such detectors would, in the words of Superintendent Marcus Campbell, “erode the culture and climate of ETHS.”Ĭampbell told the board that the district is investigating whether “there is a way we can detect weapons using sophisticated detection systems” which are not what we see at the airport. The “elephant in the room” is metal detectors, or the lack thereof. Savage-Williams said she plans to have a school board panel meet with various to-be-determined local leaders in January to talk about options and look at what other communities may be doing. 16, 2021, apparently carrying evidence from the gun incident. Pat Savage-Williams told a school board meeting Monday night that “it’s time for a conversation” on guns and a safe school environment.ĮTHS has already taken a number of steps, in the wake of two gun-in-school incidents in less than a year, in December 2021 and November 2022. Saying “we are at a place where we need to take a very close look at this,” the president of the District 202 Board of Education said she wants to bring community leaders together to discuss how to reduce the possibility of guns being brought to Evanston Township High School.
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