Parents and other Jeffco community members have asked Jeffco Public Schools to study whether arming teachers and other staff would improve the safety and security of the district’s 155 schools and the roughly 86,000 students that pass through those doors almost every day.
Among dozens of recommendations and requests presented Oct. 4 by Jeffco’s school safety and security community task force, the possibility of arming teachers and other staff could come to fruition if the school district agrees later this month to study other locales where non-security staff are or were armed, and later decide that Jeffco would benefit from such measures.
“This would primarily be for elementary school levels (to bridge a gap left unfilled by a school resource officer or SRO),” said Jason Thompson, a task force member and father of a Jeffco second-grader. “We’re not saying ‘no’ to armed staff and we’re not saying ‘yes.’ We’re just asking for it to be looked at further with district staff and security to see if it’s something that would work here.”
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