How often do you think teachers lose their keys, forget a few grades, get angry at students? After all the recent national criticism of teachers' competency to do their jobs, now those same criticizers want to arm them? What will be next?
Jonesboro: Central Texas School District Arms Teachers
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JONESBORO (February 3, 2013) --- Jonesboro ISD recently adopted a teacher firearm policy they call the Guardian Angel Program (GAP).
Some of their 14 teachers have concealed handgun licenses and are being trained to respond to emergency situations.
Jonesboro ISD Superintendent Matt Dossey said it was the only way to increase security at the rural district just north of Gatesville.
There are 173 students enrolled in Jonesboro ISD and Dossey said there was no room in the budget to hire a school resource officer on campus.
While teachers will have to have a CHL that isn't the only program requirement.
"We go through crisis intervention training, we go through hostage management situations, we're gonna require a psycholigacal evaluation of all members on the team and instead of one time criminal background checks we'll do yearly criminal background checks," Dossey said.
Jonesboro ISD and a handful of other districts in Texas currently have teacher firearm policies in place...
Teachers in Texas given green light to carry guns in classrooms
TEACHERS have been given permission to carry guns in the classroom in the US state of Texas.
The Levelland Independent School District (ISD) board this morning voted in favour of arming teachers "after extensive research and a series of meetings" ISD Superintendant Kelly Baggett told America's ABC News.
The decision was a direct response to the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
"How do you describe a tragedy like that? It's devastating," Mr Baggett told ABC News.
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