Only 25 districts have joined the Guardian Program. Most districts have not yet adopted the program and several have even voted to not participate in it. The Leon County School Board approved a resolution that only sworn law enforcement officers are permitted to have guns on campus.
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Every district is different, said Kurt Browning, superintendent of Pasco County Schools and president-elect of the Florida Association of District School Superintendents.
“I understand where the sheriff is coming from as far as teachers and coaches but with all due respect he’s not in the school system and doesn’t know how it works,” Browning said. “You cannot tell me that putting more guns on campus is going to prevent accidents.”
Pinellas sheriff urges Florida superintendents to adopt Guardian program, arm school personnel
If approved, one of the things SB 7030 would do is remove the prohibition for teachers to carry on campus. It is still not a better bill because it requires the approval of the school board to allow teachers to carry in school and there is ample opposition to the idea. Here is another article.
AVARES, Fla. – State lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the school guardian program to include arming teachers.
Orange County School Board member Angie Gallo said she asked her colleagues earlier this week to articulate the board’s position in writing.
“I would like to ask staff to create some language for a resolution that states (the) Orange County School Board opposes any legislation that will arm our teachers here in Orange County,” she said.
Gallo, the Seminole County School Board’s Tina Calderone and the Lake County School Board’s Bill Mathias each told Channel 9 on Thursday that they do not foresee their districts arming teachers should the bill be passed into law.3 Central Florida school districts seem uninterested in new proposal to arm teachers
Why did I bolden Seminole County? becase there was some sad news just yesterday.
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WESH) – A Florida high school was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a student killed herself with a handgun on campus.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said a 17-year-old junior at Lake Mary High School shot herself in the school auditorium. The student asked to leave class to use the restroom around 7:45 a.m. A teacher reported hearing the gunshot about five minutes later.
The school was immediately placed on a code red lockdown following the reports of a gunshot
Florida teen shoots, kills herself in school auditorium
Yes, it was a suicide but you would be missing the point: A Florida student living in the aftermath of the alleged security increase after Parkland managed to easily sneak a gun into a school in a system that swears does not need extra security.
These school boards are the Anti-Vaxxers of the Florida Educational System. I am no longer outraged at the idea we are going to have another school shooting because of this political bullshit, I am just resigned. And then I get to see the usual Gun Control fiends come out to dance and jump over the corpses of the kids and blame us.
School boards are filled with college trained liberals, who decided logic was unnecessary. Until these bureaucratic warts on the ass of progress are removed from power, this type of idiocy will continue.
Miggy, you nailed it! For some reason I was thinking the same thing: they are just like anti-vax morons. “The vaccination might cause harm!” — the diseases WILL cause harm! “The state should not REQUIRE vaccination!” — have you never heard of “herd immunity”?
The leftist rubbish that is preached in the colleges has turned, and will continue to turn, individuals who are of the type of personality that likes to follow a cause or join a herd, just because all of their peers are doing so. After the War, there were a lot of Germans who said, “I was not a NAZI!” (eye roll)
I am reminded of the scene in Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian,” when Brian tells the adoring crowd, “You have to think for yourselves!”
And the crowd responds, in unison, “Yes! We will think for ourselves!”