22 Ohio school districts and one Christian school have staff members who are either authorized or in the training process to carry weapons on school grounds.
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Three children and three adult staff members were killed at a Nashville private Christian elementary school on Monday. There have been 376 school shootings since Columbine in 1999, according to the Washington Post.HB 99 created the Ohio School Safety and Crisis Center within the Department of Public Safety and school districts who want their staff to be armed must submit their training plans for approval after their school board approves the request to arm staff.
Ohio school staff have been armed before, but a Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 2021 required school employees to undergo 700 hours of training to be armed at school. “The response time could cost lives,” said Indian Lake Local Schools Superintendent Rob Underwood. “Our philosophy is just pretty simple. We want to be able to react as soon as possible.”
He is glad only a fraction of Ohio school districts have decided to arm staff and within that, he said it’s encouraging to see districts have their staff undergo more than 24 hours of training. Their school board has been pretty selective when it comes to choosing who they will arm under the new law, Underwood said.
“We just want to be in a position that we are proactive,” Ruane said. “And then also in that situation, if it ever occurred, that we can react quickly and neutralize any situation before mass casualties or mass harm could be done.”
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