Now if the school can just utilize the , presumably knowledgeable, trained, capable, officers to gradually educate the rest of the staff to handle basic firearms they’d be in position to be really effective at “school defense”. In the end any defense system must be mobile and somewhat un-predictable to an outsider. Never present the same “face”or “look” to a potential trouble maker. A staff uniformed officer might very well become a first target himself. Let the armed person(s) do double duty as, oh, say, custodians, coaches, shop teachers, persons who are not necessarily tied to a classroom and might be anyplace at any time. Don’t make them look like ticket takers at the front door. In my growing up years we kids had more guns than the teachers. Nearly every car in the student parking lot had at least a highpower rifle. An outsider screwing off at that school would have hit a hard wall.
It's in Alabama so odds are the teachers know how to shoot. They just need to be allowed to carry there.