06-24-2014, 11:26 AM
MISSOURI TRAINING TEACHERS FOR CONCEALED CARRY IN THE CLASSROOM
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School districts in Missouri have started sending staffers to firearms training so they can become an effective first line of defense in the case of a school shooting.
For a $17,500 fee, districts that opt in to the 40-hour program receive training for two staffers from current law enforcement officers through the Shield Solutions training school. Teachers are required to spend five hours in a classroom and 35 hours on the range with the required firearm, a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol.
Ten Missouri school districts have taken the training so far and three more have signed contracts.
Warsaw School District officials said they felt pressured to take action after Adam Lanza, 20, killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. “That was the catalyst for us,” said Tim Thomas, the district’s director of instruction and facilities. “We knew we had to do something.”
Only school district administrators and local law enforcement will know which teachers are carrying a weapon on campus.
In an effort to avoid harming the wrong students, teachers will also be armed with a special type of bullet designed to lodge inside the first body it makes contact with.
Young school children will also be prohibited from hugging their teachers if they are carrying concealed weapons in order to avoid detection of the firearm.
“Kids in elementary age like to hug their teachers, but students cannot put their hands on you,” said Dan Crowley, training supervisor for Shield Solutions. “They can knuckle bump, they can shake hands, but hugs are no longer appropriate.”
G.A. Buie, principal of Eudora High School in Kansas and president-elect of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, opposes arming teachers.
“We would be asking school officials, trained as educators, to make a quick transition from teacher to SWAT member, arrive on the scene, assess the situation, overcome the severe nervousness that naturally accompanies a deadly force incident and take immediate action before blood is shed,” he told the Star on Sunday. “It’s a bit more than you can cover in a typical teacher in-service.”
Sources:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article595097.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014...z35ZNbX9Mv
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/23...22708.html
School districts in Missouri have started sending staffers to firearms training so they can become an effective first line of defense in the case of a school shooting.
For a $17,500 fee, districts that opt in to the 40-hour program receive training for two staffers from current law enforcement officers through the Shield Solutions training school. Teachers are required to spend five hours in a classroom and 35 hours on the range with the required firearm, a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol.
Ten Missouri school districts have taken the training so far and three more have signed contracts.
Warsaw School District officials said they felt pressured to take action after Adam Lanza, 20, killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. “That was the catalyst for us,” said Tim Thomas, the district’s director of instruction and facilities. “We knew we had to do something.”
Only school district administrators and local law enforcement will know which teachers are carrying a weapon on campus.
In an effort to avoid harming the wrong students, teachers will also be armed with a special type of bullet designed to lodge inside the first body it makes contact with.
Young school children will also be prohibited from hugging their teachers if they are carrying concealed weapons in order to avoid detection of the firearm.
“Kids in elementary age like to hug their teachers, but students cannot put their hands on you,” said Dan Crowley, training supervisor for Shield Solutions. “They can knuckle bump, they can shake hands, but hugs are no longer appropriate.”
G.A. Buie, principal of Eudora High School in Kansas and president-elect of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, opposes arming teachers.
“We would be asking school officials, trained as educators, to make a quick transition from teacher to SWAT member, arrive on the scene, assess the situation, overcome the severe nervousness that naturally accompanies a deadly force incident and take immediate action before blood is shed,” he told the Star on Sunday. “It’s a bit more than you can cover in a typical teacher in-service.”
Sources:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article595097.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014...z35ZNbX9Mv
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/23...22708.html