“If we consider the per person cost broken down across 600 parents at the Newtown school, for instance, the fee would be rather minimal if training and arming only five teachers was the outcome, and they were simply paid a monthly stipend for become part of a on site security team.
I’m not convinced these staff would demand increased pay. They might do it out of sense of devotion to the children as long as their certification/equipment costs were covered.”
Frankly, I doubt you would have found ANYone teaching at Sandy Hook Elementary who would have signed on. If you had found but one, that would be a surprise to me.
Arming school staff might sound like a good idea in some places — like rural Texas — but it simply won’t be acceptable to the vast majority of people (and teachers) in the blue states. Aside: those same districts might support an in-school security officer (as distinguished from regular member of the teaching staff or supervisors).
It goes completely against their mindset regarding firearms, and I doubt you could persuade them to change...
What you do is play the same game in reverse. “What, there isn’t one teacher in this school that cares enough about their students to protect them? REALLY?”
Get enough loud-mouths in the community to demand it, or threaten to pull their children out since they wouldn’t be safe, and watch the reaction.