[Schneed10]

Arming the teachers doesn't make sense to me. Placing armed security officers or police in schools does.

Teachers are trained to teach, security and police are trained to secure.

Today I've been successful in getting the matter of security in our school district on the agenda for the next school board meeting. After doing rough math, I've estimated that it would cost our school district $400K annually to place one armed security guard at each elementary school, and two at the middle school and two at the high school. That would cover their salaries for 180 days of 8-hour workdays.

That $400K works out to $25.61 in annual costs per household for our township.

After spending the better part of today organizing a lot of parental interest, I can't wait to be confronted with the question of cost. Show of hands, who thinks $25 per household is too expensive to safeguard our children? $30? $35?

Stop me when it gets too expensive to keep our children safe.