“Our staff is armed, trained, and determined to use lethal force in defense of our students!”
I would like to add that it should be a written policy within the district that those teachers who are certified and armed while on the job at the school where they work, and functions outside the premises with their students, should be kept extremely confidential, and under penalty of termination, if even a question (or opposition) is raised by any staff member no matter what their opinion, or reason for the inquiry...
Loose lips sink ships...And gets people and kids killed!!!
The reason being is tht unless you understand the culture of teachers today,they are not like what some of us are used to...I know, my wife is one, and some the folks she works with are a bunch of nervous ninnies right now, and it is a vicious, vindictive community with factions (groups) that if even the question is asked who are these armed teachers in their midst, the armed teachers WILL be ostrasized, scrutinized in a very prejudical manner...
I believe the only ones that need to know, are the teachers themselves, and administrators who are armed...So that they do not take shots at one another in a crisis situation...The Principal of the school, and the district administration who keep the names and certifications secret from the rest of the district...
No one (other teachers and administrators) needs to converse, ask, or assume, under penalty of termination, any adult who might be under those parameters of this effort to secure and make these schools a HARD target to even the most deranged idiot who contemplates such an abhorant act...
My wife DOES have a current Texas CHL, and one of her buddies there at the school where she works has asked me to get her up to speed on that certification at the start of this next year...
The state of Texas needs to allow all teachers and school officials who choose to accomplish this task, a no charge permit (CHL) or at least a severely reduced fee to allow this to not be a block to those that want to do this...
I believe Gov. Perry would be amiable to this idea, as he has stated that teachers should be armed while on the clock at their schools...
I believe that if there are teachers opposed to this idea, then they are free to go and work someplace where they believe no one is armed, and continue with their careers...
Just my opinion...
I agree with your post, with one reservation.
There are good teachers out there who don’t have the mental makeup to be a good CCW carrier. I’m not convinced they should be fired for it.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a case to be made against my take on it.
These kids are placed under the care of the school administrators and teachers, who (it could be argued) should be prepared to defend them against attack. That being said, not all parents are armed either when their kids are under their care.
I do firmly believe any teacher that is moved to do so, should carry. I also believe the administrators should urge their teachers who are comfortable doing so, to do so.