[ContemptofCourt]

FReepers constantly complain about teachers being liberal hacks that can't teach their kids basic skills...yet now we want these same teachers to pack heat?

As an aside, my wife is a teacher and after meeting many of her peers, I would not feel comfortable at all with them carrying weapons. Many are panzies. Moreover, the schools around here all have a police officer assigned to them.

[george76]

The principals, teachers, etc. would have to go thru training and background checks.

They would work with the local police to help provide cover for the police, too.

The perps would not know who was armed, so they would have to believe that everyone was armed...and go elsewhere.

[L98Fiero]

Good point. Hire trained professionals.

[Richard-SIA]

The same police officer who will be testifying in court over some kids bag of dope, or who is at the opposite end of the campus when needed?

Most classes have at least one teacher per room, the teachers would be qualified, and the waco's should no longer know which classes are safe to attack.

Currently schools are THE safest place to attack, it's "the law" that everyone there must remain defenseless!

[Hot Tabasco]

I would not feel comfortable at all with them carrying weapons.

A friend of mine retired a year and a half ago as a Vice principal of a large middle school here in S.E. Michigan. Unknown to the administrators, he and several of the faculty members WERE carrying concealed.

He said for all intents and purposes, he was the school's enforcer and go between between the parents of the thugs and the school. He was also the assistant coach of the high school's football team for many, many years