I am a 21 year veteran teacher. I have my CCDW. I practice using my handgun on a regular basis. I am very familiar with my gun and am very comfortable using it. IF a teacher or teachers were allowed to carry, and I think we should, the teacher would need to be vetted by the local police to ensure the teacher is capable of using their weapon in an active shooter situation. If that teacher wouldn’t or couldn’t actually shoot someone to kill, then they don’t need to carry at school. I think there should be a select few in each building. The local PD should know who those teachers are and where their classrooms are located even though they may not be in the classroom should a situation arise. I want to be able to protect my kids and not be a “sitting duck”.
I think they should if they want and are properly trained…but it is a sad state that our country is in and continues to progress where the moral decay poses the need for them to be.
C W Horsley
Welcome to the Community, @Rochelle. I’m thrilled to hear that you’re training with your handgun on a regular basis! It’s so important.
I would tweak the working of your suggestion slightly - “If that teacher wouldn’t or couldn’t actually shoot to stop the threat…”
Shoot to kill is a very loaded (pun intended 
) phrase. We really don’t want to shoot to kill, we want to shoot to stop the threat. By using that term we’re describing our intent as accurately as possible which will help with any possible legal aftermath of a self-defense incident.
When do you go back to school for this next school year? 
The classroom is no place for guns. Arm teachers and students will get shot. Increase security at schools with tighter ingress points. This is a bad idea.
Teachers should have at least a readily accessible locker where they can store their gun and a bullet proof vest. All lockers strategically placed around the school with the same model gun and one size fits all vest with a specific color for authority identification. All teachers and staff members should certified every quarter with training drills. Just an idea.
I have a high schooler. I spend time quite often going over safety scenarios with him. When I get notified from the school/schoolboard that a safety drill was conducted, we talk that afternoon about what it was about, how things went, what training or instruction was given. When the instructions he relates are essentially to make yourself a hapless potential victim, we discuss “alternative options.”
My only concern with teachers being armed is the potential that, due to the relationship they develop, would a teacher hesitate to take the shot on a “student” they know and care for. Are they prepared for that decision? I know this kid and their family, can I do this and face them and/or myself?
Welcome.to the forum; lots of great discussions going on here.
Respectfully disagree.
That is a great point, @Ron3. I can’t imagine having to face that sort of a decision. However, if I had to shoot someone I know to stop them from kill others I know, I would take the shot. I know I would have a hard time with the aftermath. But I would have an even worse time with it if I could do something and did nothing.
Do you think if they were trained teachers would be able to take that shot?
Thanks for being respectful in your disagreement, @David38. Can you give @Kenneth26 some ideas as to why you disagree? More details, better discussion. 
Thanks!
If teachers want to and have had training let them keep a pistol in a quick access safe hidden from students.
I have watched a fair number of training videos here at the USCCA. One of the bedrock lessons I have come away with is that no matter how much training a person has had, you never know how they will react to a real deadly threat situation.
It depends
As teachers focus is on delivering quality education first however some teachers will put forth the efforts needed to be responsible in being armed. Now many schools colleges universities have professional security operations in place who understand Day to day on campuses. Many of these professional departments are composed of retired police officers from around the country who bring years and years of wealth of knowledge in firearms as well dealing with various thinking individuals who should be armed as many of these “retired” seasoned professionals maintain their proficiency on a regular basis. Before creating something new with unknown results look within to a known committed!
I think teachers should be left to simply teach their classes. THe extra training and strain already on most of them is already too much. Plus it would change pay requirements, stressors for already misbehaving students, and take up even more of their already stretched time. Hire qualified Veterans! I myself as one would spend at least half the week there at a local school, with it without buying me lunch! That’s as a VOLUNTEER! NO pay/cost, just cover me legally, and YOU GOT ME! I could probably find you 20 by tomorrow who’d do the same to help out!
Teachers go on with their classes, not worrying about distractions like ‘where their gun is’…
Where I live I can have my gun on school grounds, so why shouldn’t the teachers also be allowed?? If they have the license and the skills??
Like your view point @David38
What state do you live in? I can carry on school grounds.
I say no because teachers go through enough crap in the classroom, it is my believe that the school should have other people that can walk the hallways that are armed
CA and I can’t. It’s California what more can I say?
Don’t think teacher should be armed, if they are trained, licensed and would like to carry is a different situation. I think that school “armed” security should be an additional expense schools should be required to pay. They have plenty of money to cover this but don’t look that direction because of corruption and everyone from the top down taking the money.
Only with a weekly shooting regiment. I shoot more since leaving Sheriffs office. I’d rather see retired or X-military post at schools. We have protection for the most vulnerable i.e. hospitals, synagogues and now churches, why not schools? This is not a difficult leap