Keller ISD Votes to Explore Guardian Program

[RoyGBiv]

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/loca ... 10147.html

Keller school trustees voted 4-3 Monday to explore allowing some trained employees including teachers to carry guns on campus. The vote came after students, parents and teachers urged the district to look at alternative ways other than arming staff to expand security in the wake of the Uvalde school massacre and other mass shootings. But the trustees decided in the split vote to explore options including adding more school resource officers at elementary campuses and to participate in the state-certified Guardian Program that is in place in several rural districts and the North Texas districts of White Settlement and Weatherford.

Never thought I'd see any motion at all in this direction. Previous super and I had a heated discussion about it several years ago. District safety officer is (was?) a NY Yankee and staunchly opposed.

[Grayling813]

Sounds like that "District safety officer" would have been real comfortable with his like minded friends in Uvalde.

[Paladin]

Sounds like the school district is taking the first steps. The more prepared the school district is, the greater the deterrent.

If some rogue elements were working to help Brandon round up all the guns by implementing a Operation Northwoods style terrorist attack, a school district that has armed teachers would not be the terrorist's first choice.