Black Students In Texas Claim To Feel Unsafe With Armed Teachers

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

The school marshal program makes a lot of sense, especially in the wake of school shootings. Texas is expanding its school marshal program in the wake of the Santa Fe High School shooting last year.

However, it seems many minority students are less than comfortable with the idea of armed teachers.

District officials said the Cedar Ridge student was charged with assault and resisting arrest, but no criminal charges were filed in the Round Rock High incident. But because black students are overrepresented in all types of disciplinary referrals and are more likely to have their behavior addressed by school police officers than their white peers, Johnson worries about how law enforcement officers react to his fellow students of color.

And now, as Texas lawmakers look to expand the state’s school marshal program in the wake of last year’s deadly Santa Fe High School shooting, Johnson’s concerns extend beyond school resource officers and city police. Come fall, the high school senior’s worries will focus on younger black students at schools where educators trained as school marshals can carry their concealed handguns when students are present. He’s even more concerned that there could …Read the Rest

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