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by setopt 607 days ago
The point was that if the laptop is taken out and doesn’t go through the scanner, but the rest of the student has to go through the scanner, then the laptop is a great hiding place. Presumably that scanner can at least beep at a pocket knife.
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Oh, indeed!

But if they are not otherwise checked it would be quite useless.