What’s New with Morning Scanning

Here at Millennium Brooklyn High School, students are expected to arrive at school with enough time to go through scanners and get to class before first period begins at 8 o’clock.

This process is quite routine for students, and students have had to scan in twice throughout the day: once in the morning at the 5th street entrance, and once in the afternoon after going out to lunch at the 7th Avenue entrance. This has been the process since Millennium Brooklyn’s inception. Although there are the occasional problems with the machinery, which lead to delays and long lines stretching down 5th Street. Most days, there are two scanners working for the ever expanding John Jay campus population.

New developments have recently come to attention regarding the building’s security. Although most students have accepted that scanners will be in place for the duration of their high school careers, it seems as though these scanners are receiving a change of pace.

There were two incidents this week that have changed the way students interact with the security measures. Groups of students have been redirected to the front of the building to scan in at the 7th Avenue entrance in the morning, which seems to be the administration’s solution to one of the scanners malfunctioning, a problem that would have previously caused students to be late to class.

Although this is recent news, Seniors at Millennium Brooklyn do not seem to have any interest in the issue. Reluctant interviewee, Jacob Sandman, had only one thing to say, “I don’t care.”

Classmate Mika Park elaborated, stating that the redirection is “ better, because there is less of a line, but the whole thing is just stupid, and I hate it all.” Be it good or bad, their opinions seem to accurately describe the Seniors’ point of view on this topic.

Mr. Otto also had little to say about the matter. When asked, he said that the only reason for the opening of the front entrance was because only one scanner was working. We will see in coming days if the front entrance is continually utilized in times of need.