Metal detectors used to be confined to high security areas like airports to guard against terrorists. Now they are installed in our schools to guard against terrorists; the students. Many of California's schools have become institutions of violence, intimidation, and fear instead of institutions of higher learning. Have our schools lost control of their purpose of educating young people to become knowledgeable, productive, conscientious adults? The classrooms have become overcrowded, the students ethical values are conspicuously missing, and ....