WY District Votes To Arm Teachers From Bears After DeVos Suggestion To Do So
Source: Talking Points Memo/AP
By Mead Gruver | April 18, 2018 10:43 am
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming school district where U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos suggested that teachers might need to be armed to protect children from grizzly bears voted Tuesday on doing just that, though concerns about school shootings worry parents more than the possibility of big bruins on the prowl.
The 4-2 vote by the Park County School District No. 6 board in the town of Cody near Yellowstone National Park came after more than six months of discussion and debate. Under the proposed policy, school employees would need to have at least 24 hours of initial firearms training and annual recertification to carry concealed guns at school.
“Unfortunately we have people in our country who want to cause harm to students and at some point you have to respond to that threat. And that’s what this board decided to do with the policy they adopted,” said Superintendent Ray Schulte. The policy was up for a final vote after passing two earlier votes 5-2.
Nationwide, some districts are discussing arming teachers not with guns but buckets of rocks (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) and tiny baseball bats (Erie, Pennsylvania). But in some rural areas including much of Texas, school officials have been quietly arming teachers for years.
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130,000 schools in this nation, and these people are especially worried it'll happen there?
Maybe they have more nuts in rural Colorado? CO does border the "redoubt" region that's drawn a bunch of heavily armed suspicious people who most would prefer didn't live nearby. “Vote with your feet, too late for MAGA" types.
Some old friends from the Santa Monica area, moderately conservative empty nesters, have been discussing this. He wants to move to rural eastern Idaho because he loves the area itself. But when they visited to check out prospective homes, she discovered just what was over the hill or down the road and said a big no.
