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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]
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.
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 ...
Teachers and other school staff could obtain a professional permit to carry guns on school grounds under a Republican-backed bill that passed the Iowa House Wednesday night after a tense debate.
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.
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 half of the U.S. states in some form allow teachers or other employees with concealed carry permits to carry guns on school property, according to the Giffords Law Center, a gun control ...
Knox County Schools administrators have not made a decision whether to allow teachers to carry concealed guns in classrooms.The new law passed this week has not been signed by Gov. Bill Lee.