Ohio school to arm janitors, receives support from parents

A school in Ohio will arm janitors after its board raised the issue for a vote Wednesday. Officials from the school that will arm four janitors said the community members hold the second amendment close to their hearts.?

By Associated Press / January 11, 2013

A Ohio school will arm four janitors after the school board Jan. 9 considered safety measures in wake of the Newtown shooting. Here, on that same day, a man supports gun rights outside Colorado's State Capitol in Denver.

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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.

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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.

"It's kind of a sign of the times," Superintendent Jamie Grime said Friday.

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."

The move comes as districts and lawmakers across the nation weigh how to protect students following the?school?massacre in Newtown, Conn., and after the National Rifle Association called for an armed officer in every U.S.?school. The gunman in Newtown used a rifle to kill 20 students and six educators.

Lawmakers in South Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri and South Dakota are looking into legislation that would allow teachers and otherschool?employees to have?guns.

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called Friday for state-funded, specialized firearms training for teachers and administrators.?Schooldistricts would decide who would carry weapons but not be required to participate, and training would include how to react during a shooting.

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