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Training teachers to carry guns. In places where proposals to arm teachers were made or implemented, public debate ensued. Opponents of arming teachers argue that it is not the teachers' job to provide security, [1] but rather the task of the government, as the teachers' employer, to provide a safe work environment. [2]
Campus police in Canada are sworn in as peace officers – giving them full police powers on their respective campuses to enforce the Criminal Code, as well as local bylaws. Peace officers in Canada do not typically carry firearms like their police counterparts, so campus officers only carry a baton, pepper spray, handcuffs and a radio ...
The new teacher carry law requires a district's director of schools, school principal and chief of local law enforcement to sign off on a staff member's authority to carry a concealed handgun.
About 50 miles south of Salem, just outside Dayton, the Mad River Local School District has given guns to about 20 of its teachers. Their identities are confidential as part of the district's policy.
Rep. Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, presents a bill that would allow K-12 public school teachers and staff to carry guns in schools on the Tennessee House floor on Tuesday.
The Guardian Plan is broader, authorizing school boards to allow any employee to be armed, under the authority of the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act and the Texas Penal Code. Those employees ...
Members of the public debated the issue widely in 2022, when Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine reduced the required training for authorized staff to carry guns from 700 hours to 24 hours.
A 2021 state law already allowed schools to authorize individuals to carry firearms, though some districts have not done so because of concerns about insurance coverage.