I’m in high school. I have many wonderful teachers. I don’t think any of them should be armed. Some of my teachers, and again, I love them, can hardly even operate a DVD player. I do not want any of them to be given firearms.
police officers that are extremely well trained and especially for a school environment and whom had been extremely background checked?
I’ve never even heard of such specimen.
TBH I’m not sure how the security guard at my school would have checked those various boxes, but even if security guards are not necessarily the solution, they’re not necessarily bad. The guy at my school was a former cop, but seemed to do very well with the whole “beat cop” thing. Walking around, chatting and joking with kids, knowing their names, gaining their trust and respect. Definitely never got called in to deal with regular school discipline issues, was strictly for security. Which, to be honest, meant I can’t think of a time he actually did anything security-related beyond breaking up the occasional fistfight, but that’s how security is. Most of the time, you’re paying people just to be there. Unfortunately I think this guy and his relationship with the school was pretty exceptional. I hear a lot about other security guards who get dragged into student discipline, and that’s a bad road to go down. But so’s the “sit at your desk and watch cameras all day and none of the kids even know who you are” option. There’s a lot of ways to do security wrong.