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The director of the National Center for School Safety spoke with FOX 17 Friday on how districts go about determining safety mechanisms and procedures to implement.
“The backpack ban is not ideal but, at the end of the day, they have to do whatever it takes to get the guns out of the schools,” Tim Russ, a union representative, said.
Grand Rapids Public School banned backpacks Wednesday after another student brought a gun to school.
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The decision was made on Wednesday, May 10, when a loaded handgun was found in a third-grade student’s backpack.