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Some West Michigan oversee and school officials say no.
“I don’t see any value to this kind of device in schools,” said David Britten, boss of Godfrey-Lee Public Schools, noting in the case of backpacks that students typically keep those stowed in their lockers during the philosophy day.
“In my 16 years as an administrator, I can’t think of one incident that would necessitate an radical device such as this. In our elementary schools, kids are accompanied by their teachers wherever they go.
“In midst and high school, teachers and administrators are in the hallways while classes are changing.”
Edric Sizemore, inventor of the iSafe backpacks and bags , which are equipped with a great-decibel siren and strobe light, say products like these can help kids and others skip town a crisis or harmful situation, including fending off a bully or alerting someone to a medical danger.
“Our objective is to attract attention, and the alarm is deafening,” said Sizemore, president of Inventive Concepts Cosmopolitan in Elks Grove Village, Ill. “The backpack emits two sharp-decibel sirens and high-intensity strobe lights simultaneously. You pinch a pin concealed under the flap of the shoulder strap to activate it.
Source: MLive.com