I firmly and respectfully disagree.suthdj wrote:Having an armed teacher hiding in a class room is next to useless, they need to be engaging the shooter, unless every teacher is armed and that is not going to happen any time soon.SewTexas wrote:jbarn wrote:In a school, and armed teacher might feel compelled or emboldened to go in search of the shooter. In a mall, most SOPs for the mall is evacuate/hide. I know I teach CHLers to not go hunting active shooters just because of this concern.
That said, I firmly believe an armed teacher could leave the police with nothing to do but take a report. Remember, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Teachers can be taught how to react upon arrival of armed LE.
the teacher isn't going to leave her students.....no way, no how. Now, if the shooter comes in her classroom, if she's armed, he's dead, what problem the chief has with that...I don't see it? (ok, grammatically that's horrid, but I think you should understand it. :) )
An armed teacher should do as other posters have proposed and hunker-down in the class with all of the children out of the line of fire (teacher to door). That teacher should be prepared to engage anyone forcing the door that does not provide a valid reason for trying to enter the classroom after sounds of gunfire are heard.
That teacher should not be attempting to execute search-and-destroy missions for intruders through the hallways of the school.