The groggy Perry Meridian High School students shuffle in at 7 a.m. and know what they have to do. They take their laptops, spiral notebooks and instruments out of their backpacks, lift them above their heads and walk through the new artificial intelligence weapons detection systems.
School administrators stand near the entrance, greeting students as they enter while they peer at tablets that are screening to make sure that no weapon sneaks in with the rush of students.
Sometimes, school staff pull a student to the side because the machine has picked up something questionable in their backpacks. In most cases, the school resource officer looks through their bags and pulls out an innocent metal water bottle, hairspray canister, or eyeglass case. Some students go through the detector again to make sure they are all clear.
