A School in Rural Ohio is Planning to Arm Janitors:
(This seems completely crazy to me! Apparently only 3 parents thought it was a bad idea.)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A rural school district in Ohio is drawing attention with its plans to arm a handful of its non-teaching employees with handguns this year - perhaps even janitors. Four employees in the Montpelier schools have agreed to take a weapons training course and carry their own guns inside the district's one building, which houses 1,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, school officials said.
The Toledo Blade reported that the employees were janitors, but school officials would not confirm that to The Associated Press, saying only that they are employees who don't have direct supervision over the students in the northwest Ohio district. The four employees who will carry guns all volunteered to take part, Grime said. The school plans to pay for them to attend a two-day training course.
"Putting a firearm in a school is a huge step," Grime said. "We're going to do it properly. These people need the proper training."
A letter was sent out to parents after the vote. Only three complained, while close to 150 called or sent emails supporting the idea in Montpelier, a remote city of about 4,000 residents along Interstate 80 near the convergence of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.
"It's a place where people hold the Second Amendment close to their hearts," the superintendent said.
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