Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
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.
I do not know were the funding will come from that is kind of why I started this post. I do not exactly want to sit in my car all day and watch a school either but I will do what I feel is necessary to stop this kind of tragedy. It is not exactly the perfect or ideal job as I would imagine it is very boring. It is a job that needs to be filled by someone that is mentally stable with the proper training. Also I will make sure that my guys have specific training and retrain every 6 months.