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ABOUT HALF OF PARENTS STILL SUPPORT SCHOOL POLICE, ARMED SECURITY
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* About half of parents still say school police officers or armed security in
schools would be extremely or very effective in preventing school shootings,
according to a Pew Research Center survey of 3,757 parents released Tuesday.
The support remained high despite calls to get rid of school resource
officers in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and more recent
scrutiny after footage of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting showed slow police
response to the May massacre.
* About half (49%) of parents also say arming teachers or administrators would
be effective to varying degrees, with 25% saying that would be somewhat
effective and 24% saying very or extremely effective.
* Support for police officers or armed security guards in schools is higher
among Republicans (61%) than Democrats (38%), as is support for arming
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Though K-12 workforce challenges predated the pandemic, the health crisis has
only exacerbated the issue and led to further debate over what’s needed to keep
teachers and staff in the profession or bring them back.
DIVE INSIGHT:
Like many other recent controversial and politically charged issues in K-12,
school safety and gun violence prevention has caused fissures among the public
and within the education sector. The Pew report showed Republicans were most
likely to cite having police officers or armed security stationed in schools as
a preventative measure, while Democratic parents were most likely to say
improving mental health screening and treatment would be effective.
As is common after school shootings, suggestions to arm teachers surfaced almost
immediately after the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 students and two
teachers.
Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, for example, signed legislation making it
easier for teachers to carry firearms in schools by reducing the maximum initial
training hours required. The National Association of School Resource Officers
recommends against the practice of arming teachers.
Support for that school safety tactic was largely split among party lines, the
Pew survey showed.
The overall high percentage of parents in agreement that arming teachers would
be effective to varying degrees is similar to findings in another survey
released by Phi Delta Kappan International in August, that 45% of the general
public and 43% of public school parents somewhat or strongly supported arming
teachers. The support in that survey was not much different from prior years,
however, suggesting that parents did not see arming teachers and administrators
as a panacea.
On the other hand, support for improving mental health screening and treatment
was high among both parties in the Pew survey, with 55% of Republicans and 70%
of Democrats favoring it as a preventative measure for school shootings.
Mental wellness among K-12 students has received increased attention — including
from federal lawmakers — and especially following COVID-19 closures, after which
educators said they saw more incidents of bullying and higher rates of mental
health issues like anxiety and depression. Bullying prevention and response are
often cited as an approach to school shooting prevention.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the 2020-21 school
year had the highest number of school shooting casualties in the past two
decades, despite the pandemic keeping many students home.
The Pew survey shows nearly a third of parents (32%) say they are very or
extremely worried about a shooting happening at their children’s school, and
another 37% of parents said they are somewhat worried.
Concerns varied starkly by race and income. Black (40%) and Hispanic parents
(50%) were almost twice as likely as White parents (22%) to say they are very or
extremely worried about the possibility of a shooting.
Nearly half of lower-income K-12 parents (49%) said they are very or extremely
worried about a school shooting happening at their children’s school, compared
to 26% of middle-income parents and 19% of upper-income parents.
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