North Penn School District is considering armed guards at its schools in the aftermath of the horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“It’s definitely something we are looking at,” said Ray Wilson, coordinator of safe schools for the district, during a community outreach program at the high school on Monday that drew about 250 residents.
Many of the currently unarmed security personnel in the secondary schools are retired police officers, Wilson said, but “you can’t just strap on a gun. They do have experience with firearms but they would have to be retrained and reassessed” should a decision be made to have armed guards.
Superintendent Curtis R. Dietrich acknowledged it has been “a big matter of public debate across our whole country … whether we should have armed people in our schools. The upsides and, of course, the down sides.”
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