School Idea?

[fxstchewy]

I "think" we should hire ex-military guys/gals as teachers and let them CCW and be first responders to school issues such as Sandy Hook and others, when they come out of service they need jobs, Let them apply screen them and go from there. i know some say "i don't want guns in school with my kids" but hey, do a reality check, parents walk their kids by police with GUNS all the time, at the mall, ballgames , airports and so on.
Example, no protection = nut job shoots up school/kids then after 10-15 mins and many deaths police come in with MANY GUNS drawn and sort out the mess OR nut job comes in and Armed Trained teacher takes them out before hopefully anyone gets hurt = less trama for kids and parents.
At the very least it will be a deterant, kinda like the air-marshal thing and these guys need jobs, could learn the teaching skills in the service and it dosen't have to be just Military could be LEO's looking for a different career.
Better than what we have now...........

 

[BK]

Almost 100,000 public schools in this nation. Guarding them all is going to cost A LOT! They will likely become unionized and eventually end up like the TSA agents at airports.

 

[fxstchewy]

Guarding them all is going to cost A LOT!

No free Lunch, nobody rides for free. Have to have X amount of teachers because population is always rising, some teachers are retiring,one at a time elementary schools first and go up.

 

[Springfield0612]

I currently work at a Military hospital and we receive on average 1,000 hours a month from volunteers for various programs here at the hospital. I know of 100's of retired vets just in this area that would be more than willing to sit around and read the morning paper, drink a cup of coffee and guard our futures, that's why they joined the service all those years ago. If I could get the opportunity to provide my time free of charge to help protect our schools where do I sign?

 

[Mousegun]

They will likely become unionized and eventually end up like the TSA agents at airports.

That is the scary part of that post.

 

[hso]

You can't have volunteers at schools providing armed security, but you could have volunteers providing unarmed security.

That would last about 6 weeks before the volunteers were so crushingly bored that they'd drift off or start to help in other areas of the school.

With a hundred thousand public schools you'd need a hundred thousand volunteers. Not likely to see that many to cover every school.

The idea of hiring teachers with a combat arms background is interesting, but the primary qualification is communication and training skills for teachers. It isn't the ability to hit a target wile under fire. You have to provide grants for veterans to get teaching degrees and certificates and that will take years even if the money is found for the educational grants and then the money to pay the newly minted teachers has to be found. This in an economy that has communities laying teachers with years of experience off. How is that supposed to be made to work in any practical sense?

 

[Skribs]

HSO, why can't you have volunteers provide armed security? Provided they pass a background check (which they should ANYWAY to provide any security to kids), what's the problem with them being armed?

I do agree that it is a logistic problem.

On the other hand, what about hiring a few teachers with training or providing training to a few teachers? I'm sure there are veterans of the police force or military who have teaching degrees.

 

[Apple a Day]

All school teachers aren't white-hair-in-a-bun marms. Plenty of second career military folks take up teaching already. Some teachers are avid shooters and already have a concealed carry license (like me). At the high school where I work there are at least three of us already who have CCLs but we aren't allowed by law to carry.
I'd start with just allowing those of us with the interest and the licensing to do what we already do outside of campus.

 

[BK]

Some teachers are avid shooters and already have a concealed carry license (like me).

Do you mean a few teachers?

At the high school where I work there are at least three of us already who have CCLs but we aren't allowed by law to carry.
I'd start with just allowing those of us with the interest and the licensing to do what we already do outside of campus.

Those few who are gun and defense knowledgeable would be good to guard the classroom they stand in, when gunshots are heard. But then you have all of the many other classrooms. Those teachers are not gun and defense knowledgeable and they do not want to be. You shouldn't be forced to leave your students helpless, just to defend the students in another classroom where a teacher refuses to defend them.

I know of a teacher. She HATES kids. She hates her job and the children that she is supposed to be teaching. She won't quit though, and get out of the way. She has a pension, health care, and three months off with full pay. If a shooting occurred in her workplace, she would not hesitate to throw kids out of the way in order to escape. She HATES kids. How do you fix that?