Because this issue received quite a bit of publicity, we are sure that you are aware that on Tuesday, June 18, the LAUSD Board of Education voted to end the safety policy requiring the random searches of students using handheld metal detectors (wanding). The policy was put in place in 1993 after students were killed at Fairfax and Reseda high schools. We must note that these were definitely not the first students to be killed on a LAUSD campus, several had lost their lives in the preceding years, but these shootings gained national attention because