Ohio teachers authorized to carry concealed weapons on school grounds don't have to complete as many hours of weapons training as police, a judge ruled on Thursday.
"Clearly teachers, administrators, administrative assistants and custodians, along with most, if not all, other school employees are not employed by educational institutions in such capacity, unlike someone such as a school resource officer who is," he wrote in his decision, which was obtained by local newspaper Journal-News.
Meanwhile, the school district —located in Middletown, about 30 miles northeast of Cincinnati—praised the ruling. In a statement, Madison Superintendent Lisa Tuttle-Huff described the concealed-carry policy as boosting student safety on campus. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, who has been a staunch supporter of arming teachers, tweeted that it was a"win" for the kids and parents in the community. Following the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Jones had offered free training courses to educators.
"All of these families share the Board’s desire to take any and every step possible to keep the community’s school children safe,” the parents wrote. “However, they strongly disagree with the view that arming teachers, support staff, administrators, and ‘others’ would accomplish this goal.”
Newsweek, why aren’t you up in arms!
So someone hears a popping sound aaaand--oh! The popping noise wasn't a gun? Someone got shot for nothing?! Innocent lives are going to be put at risk.
Armed teachers do not make arrests , patrol the street , rescue function's , enforce State or Federal law , they don't need to know the basic law enforcement training sections, as they only have one duty and that is to protect their students/ stop the shooter quickly as possible
Crossing another state of my list to visit. Definitely not even passing by.
Arm teachers with school supplies not guns
🙄🙄disaster waiting to happen! Lot of teachers are unstable hope people know that!
So what? Apples and sour grapes.
Sounds like if we put this in place, only the lefty biased communist teachers trying to indoctrinate our children will quit. Perfect. Kills 2 birds with one stone.
Newsweek only writes storied about stuff that triggers their Trump Derangement Syndrome. If you are in a mass shooting, go hang with the unarmed folks. I know where I would be.
Thankfully I don’t live in Ohio, this is ridiculously stupid.
Well, that makes perfect sense. WTF?
This is what happens with a Republican Governor who used to be Attorney General.
So...one student triggers that one nerve on that one teacher and...
This is tragedy waiting to happen.
The JUDGE should be prosecuted fully when the first student dies at the hand of an untrained teacher.
Huge mistake that will cost lives.
This will not end well.
Just because Annie Oakley is from Ohio, it doesn't mean everybody's aim is true.
In Ohio judges are elected and the NRA invests lots of money in those races. A significant amount of the NRA’s money comes in the form of anonymous bitcoin and from unregistered Russian agents like Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin all to influence US elections at every level.
Ole anti American newsweek and anti child discipline.
WTF is happening to our country So who’s to say, that one day a fully armed teacher doesn’t become unhinged, losses its mind and takes out faculty and kids?!?! This is disastrous!
I'd retire first before working there. Teachers should not be carrying guns.
what could go wrong...
It will facilitate two way gun battles instead of one way only.
Priming the Pump for even more Carnage n Mayhem rather than addressing the Real probelm
This is scary. And I am an educator. I do not support this. The second I have to carry a gun in my classroom....I will resign. I’m there to educate and inspire. I am not law enforcement. It is the Diatrict’s job to provide safe schools. This is a potentially dangerous band-aid.