LSUTiger wrote:C-dub wrote:LSUTiger wrote:C-dub wrote:LSUTiger wrote:I want to see allowing armed staff or mandatory police based on student population in every dang Pre, K-12 school in the state. It's time we start protecting our children!!!!
Allowing the staff to be armed is already allowed by the state. It is only up to the school or school district to choose to allow it or not.
Every school district needs to allow it then. Make it so they can't disallow it.
A few do. I also wish it were more. And those that do only allow certain trained staff. I wish they would just allow any CHL/LTC holder. If they would allow other non staff members to carry I could see them limiting it to parents that have children in that school, but of course, the only way to ensure that would be to require that those parents "register" with the school that they are such a person. How many would be willing to do that? For me, since my daughter has been in a private school so far from K-8 I would have. However, next year, she'll be in public high school and I'm not sure if I'd do that for them. I might, but it will be unlikely that I'll have to make that choice.
My kids are also in private K-8 school. I know the parents of a few of their classmates who are LTC and that's just in 2 classes, I wonder how many parents are LTC in the whole school? I wouldn't expect people besides staff or parents to volunteer. I would volunteer until they are old enough to carry themselves.
As LTC, "we" are already "registered" with the state.
Even as parents we have to have VIRTUS training to volunteer to help at school, so in a way parents are already "registered" with the school as meeting certain requirements to volunteer.
Now just hanging out at school providing security people would wander what you are doing there unless a program was in place so I guess you might be right about "registering" with the school but I'd do it for my kids as opposed to leaving them defenseless and unprotected in a gun free zone as sitting ducks for someone looking for their 15 minutes of infamy. Parents need to start stepping up for their kids protection.
But it's no different that being a LEO providing the same service. LEO's are "registered" with somebody.
I agree that schools should enlist LTC parent volunteers for their campuses. As far as being "registered" if your child is a student, you are already "registered' with the school, it would just be a matter of having a file with something like "LTC volunteers" on it and a verification form showing that you are a LTC holder. It would have to be updated annually just like your child's immunization records etc. but it could be kept only on that campus. The other issue, of course, is adults "just hanging around" I'm sure there would need to be some type of identifier to wear, a safety vest etc.., for two reasons, one to let everyone know that you are authorized to be there and second if there was an incident, you would be quickly identified as a GG. by responding LEOs.
Just my two cents.
