{"id":117651,"date":"2026-07-01T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117651"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:58:54","slug":"117651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117651","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2026\/07\/01\/ohio-116-school-districts-now-allow-armed-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio: 116 School Districts Now Allow Armed Employees<\/a><\/p>\n<header>\n<aside id=\"social-share-article-top\" class=\"bnn-social-share\"><\/aside>\n<div id=\"PollyC\" data-mp3u=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2026\/07\/ohio-116-school-districts-now-allow-armed-employees-33172672.mp3\" data-mp3l=\"2:15\" data-mp3d=\"PT2M15S\">Four years after Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed legislation allowing school boards to choose to allow teachers and other employees to be armed, 116 school districts have chosen to allow armed employees for classroom defense.<\/div>\n<div data-mp3u=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2026\/07\/ohio-116-school-districts-now-allow-armed-employees-33172672.mp3\" data-mp3l=\"2:15\" data-mp3d=\"PT2M15S\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"subheading\">WOWO\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/wowo.com\/ohio-school-safety-report-reveals-116-districts-and-schools-allow-armed-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the figure of \u201c116 school districts\u201d is derived from state data \u201cas of June 17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Capital Journal\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/06\/29\/more-than-110-ohio-school-districts-and-schools-have-armed-staff-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">noted<\/a>\u00a0that the 116 districts include \u201cmore than 70 Ohio school districts and 15 Christian schools\u2026[with] staff\u00a0members who are authorized to carry weapons on school grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper criticized the training requirements for the growing number of armed school employees, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not a sufficient amount of training. We\u2019re talking about highly intense situations that require a lot of not only tactical training on how to use weapons, but how to deal with making split-second decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>She did not provide an instance where an armed teacher or employee has harmed someone since the law was signed by DeWine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Antwerp district superintendent Marty Miller explained that his district chose to arm teachers and employees because they are in a rural setting with a longer police response time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">He said, \u201cIt\u2019s just letting the public know that your children are protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio: 116 School Districts Now Allow Armed Employees Four years after Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed legislation allowing school boards to choose to allow teachers and other employees to be armed, 116 school districts have chosen to allow armed employees for classroom defense. WOWO\u00a0reported\u00a0that the figure of \u201c116 school districts\u201d is derived from state data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117652,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117651\/revisions\/117652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}