KELLER, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas school district has decided to move forward with a controversial school security idea despite protests.
Keller ISD has voted to change its policy so teachers and other school employees could be authorized to carry weapons. This will be the largest school district in North Texas to implement a guardian program.
Proponents say it could offer two to three minutes of armed response before police arrive. Opponents say a district survey found that teachers overwhelmingly don't want the responsibility.
Teachers, administrators, cafeteria workers, even janitors who undergo 50 hours of training could allowed to carry loaded guns with them to school campuses.
There were voices coming from both sides about whether it's a good idea.
Full Article : https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/kelle ... ers-armed/Diane Ossenkop is a former Keller subsidiary teacher who says a school shooter with an assault rifle won't be stopped by someone like her with a handgun.
"We need you to do more research than just the guardian program," Ossenkop said.
Opponents point out that teachers in Keller currently aren't allowed to even break up a student fight yet could soon be allowed to carry firearms.
The decision gives the superintendent authorization to create a training program and implement it without further board action.
At the same board meeting we have this.
https://www.rawstory.com/sar-shalom-synagogue/Texas school board that banned Anne Frank's Diary invites Messianic 'rabbi' accused of sex crimes to give prayer
A Texas school board that removed an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank's diary invited a Messianic "rabbi" accused of sexual assault to open a meeting with a prayer.
The Keller Independent School District earlier this year ordered its libraries to remove all copies of a 2018 graphic novel adaptation of "The Diary of a Young Girl," written by the teenage Frank while in hiding with her parents before they were sent to a Nazi concentration camp, and on Monday introduced a prayer leader as "Rabbi Griffin," reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“Last night we were shocked but excited when we saw a man who said he was a rabbi come up to pray,” said parent Laney Hawes, a frequent critic of the board's decisions. “We then realized why the school board was letting [Griffin] pray, because he was praying to Jesus.”
But a "quick Google search" revealed the "rabbi" was Mark Aaron Griffin, who leads a congregation in nearby Saginaw that blends Christian beliefs and Jewish practices, and is currently awaiting trial on four counts of sexual assault.
Twenty years ago we pulled our son out of the Keller ISD and had him home schooled, after he was assaulted by some other students at the school and was arrested for making a threat to them, after they beat him up. The other students were just sent to detention.