Let the teachers teach; schools need more cops

Regarding the June 22 article “School safety goals expanded” by Cynthia Howell: It is my personal opinion the meeting held and being reported should have been led and conducted by our local police department. The trained and qualified protectors of the citizens in their perimeter would convey to the teachers and staff of that district how and what to do when their school is being invaded by a “shooter” — training of all the staff on how to protect the students and themselves while the trained police do the shooting and arrest of the invader.

Schools, including private schools, should not conduct meetings on which teacher will carry a gun and which teacher can shoot the fastest. Otherwise, the universities will have to change the wording on all the future degrees it gives to the graduates to read “degree in math education and proficient in shooting and guns!”

In other words, the police departments in the United States are too “ho-hum” about school-involvement shootings. They react after the event. Proficiently, but still after the shooting starts.

There are no signs of security studies of possible shooters being watched and questioned, pre-arrested. We need to pass a law requiring police departments in every U.S. city to have a school security division. Don’t arm the teachers. Instead, have special-trained police in every U.S. school. Have one police officer per “x” number of students. No exceptions.

My bottom line: In each school in the USA, where our most precious assets are being taught, the police officers would be present the entire time the school is open.

Let the trained and educated teachers teach and the trained police officers protect and guard the students and staff. This will include public schools, private schools and higher education schools.

SALLYANN J. BROWN Rogers