Police require over 700 hours of training to carry a firearm. Teachers in one Ohio school district will need just 27.
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.”
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