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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:06 PM Jan 2019

Parents sue over district's policy to arm teachers at school

Source: Associated Press

Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press
Updated 1:51 pm CST, Friday, January 4, 2019

TAMAQUA, Pa. (AP) — Parents are going to court to block a Pennsylvania school district from allowing teachers to carry guns in school.

A new lawsuit says that Tamaqua Area School Board members "endangered their community" when they approved a policy to arm teachers and other school employees.

Holly Koscak (KOH-sak) is one of the plaintiffs. Her daughter goes to Tamaqua Area High School. She said Friday that "a teacher's role is to teach," not to serve in the additional role of police officer.

But school board member Nicholas Boyle says an armed force of teachers and other school employees will act as a deterrent.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Parents-sue-over-district-s-policy-to-arm-13508102.php

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Parents sue over district's policy to arm teachers at school (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2019 OP

Just wait until one of those kids, or a disgruntled employee, gets ahold of one of those guns flibbitygiblets Jan 2019 #1

I am stunned that a school district would want to take on that kind of liability TexasBushwhacker Jan 2019 #2

My husband, a retired inner-city school teacher, Ohiogal Jan 2019 #3

Here's one of them: mpcamb Jan 2019 #4

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

1. Just wait until one of those kids, or a disgruntled employee, gets ahold of one of those guns

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:18 PM

Jan 2019

Terrible policy. If I were a parent I would be livid. Imagine having to send your children to a school where teachers are armed. What could possibly go wrong?