Ohio Preparing More Teachers To Be Armed At Schools

By James England

COSHOCTON, OHIO — Ohio school superintendents are increasingly implementing concealed carry programs into their schools. District by district, each school is deciding how it wants to implement new concealed carry policies for faculty and staff. With some counties, like Coshocton, hoping to have a faculty member carrying concealed in each school, it has raised concerns as some communities claim they had little or no notification of those changes.

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“Five years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered it, and even three or two years ago I would still have been saying this is not the direction we want to go,” said David Hire, Superintendent of Coshocton City Schools, who hopes to have armed staff members in his schools by year end. “But we’re living in a society where this is becoming almost weekly or every other week where there is some event somewhere around the country.”

In previous articles, we mentioned that some counties are taking proactive measures; not just by allowing faculty to be armed, but giving them additional training to prepare them.

This makes the most sense.

In all honesty, we’ll likely hear plenty of parents, other teachers, and media pundits lambaste the notion that teachers should be …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation