Don’t Leave Schools Helpless

Several years ago, while teaching at an intermediate school in Brooklyn, I asked the security officer what he would do if an armed perpetrator entered the building (“Save our savior!” March 11). His answer: “I have no gun; I wouldn’t do anything.”

Unarmed security personnel are useless in preventing mass killings. Let’s keep police on the streets where they’re needed and arm all school-security staff.

Several armed security officers would offer better protection to students and staff than one policeman, and at minimal additional cost. Carl Ognibene Staten Island

Parents who want our schools to be more secure should call their congressman and demand federal funds be stopped until Mayor de Blasio fully staffs city schools with cops to protect students. Barbara Paolucci Manhattan