Quote Originally Posted by Atrain1 View Post
I have giving the option of arming teachers another thought and in my opinion it is a bad idea. I know people that work in the school district and know a lot of teachers that in their opinion should not be teaching let alone have a gun. My reasoning behind this is all it would take is one unstable teacher to lose his marbles and shoot up the whole class room. I know there can be BC on people to see if they qualify to posses a handgun on school grounds but even that is not a guaranty, it would also cut down on a lot of potential applicants that would probably make good teachers (mainly talking about people that are against guns) also the teachers job is to teach. As far as as law enforcement patrolling or even being on school grounds at all times would be better than nothing, but I still think private security is a better option. As a private security guard I and or my employee's can concentrate on their only job they are assigned to which is protecting the school. I am not talking about having Rambo running around on school grounds with an M4 and full tactical gear. What I want to do is put a armed guard at the school in a patrol vehicle and mainly just have him watch the school. This guard would have a list of people who are supposed to be there and just mainly watch out for anything suspicious. Depending on the school maybe even do foot patrols every so often. My goal would be to stop anyone from entering the school that (A) should not be there (B) looks suspicious (C) stop anyone from removing any children. I have not worked out the detail nor do I even know if I can get the funding or approval, but you should be able to kind of get an idea of what I am trying to accomplish.

Who is paying for the armed guard? Taxpayers.

Non starter.

Schools already do a less than adequate job of teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. How could you justify the cost of an armed guard when you can barely justify an art, music or PE teacher? If you can't do more for less money than we are spending now on the public school system, it is dead before it gets out of the gate.

I personally have problems with the idea of a SRO. What 23 year old individual who chooses a career in law enforcement volunteers to spend every shift in a middle school? Either those officers don't want to be there and are looking for something else to keep their selves busy or they are probably not suited to the profession. This is just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth.

Be safe.