The Rise of Armed Teachers
THEY’VE ALREADY EXISTED IN SOME
DISTRICTS FOR YEARS, BUT NOW SOME SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ARE GETTING INTENSIVE,
POLICE-STYLE TRAINING IN HOW TO RESPOND TO A SHOOTING.
Over nine days in July, the
first class of school marshals gathered for training. The group of seven
teachers and administrators, largely male, assembled at eight each morning at
Tarrant County College’s Criminal Justice Training Center, in northwest Fort
Worth, to discuss tragedies like Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook. They
parsed the details and talked about how they would theoretically respond to
such an emergency.
