Parkland shooting investigative panel recommends arming teachers.

Yep.  It's true.  The people who reviewed all the evidence and created the official government report have figured out the obvious: when seconds count the police are minutes away, and even after the police arrive they will cower outside long enough for many people to get killed in the building.  So the recommendation is to train and arm school teachers.

Yes, it sounded absurd when I was saying that this was the soln but now even the police agree that even their few honest and brave members cannot be where they need to be when the bad stuff is happening.  So they are happy to outsource their job of protecting students from active shooters to school teachers.

School teachers should embrace this, and the intelligent ones will.  And any teacher who agrees to the training and carries a gun in plain sight on their hip at all times when they are on school grounds should be given a 15% monthly "I'm doing the cop's job" bonus.  And this should be paid for straight out of the police pension fund. Sorry cops, if teachers are doing some of your job then they should get some of your pay.  Fair's fair.

Teachers carrying student protection guns must keep the weapon loaded and safe in a holster.  It must never be put in a desk, even a locked one.  The teacher must wear it at all times and if not then it goes in a safe in the principle's office.  The teacher must also wear a bright orange reflective identification tag or vest that immediately identifies them as a student protection asset.  The gun must never leave the holster except in the direct defense of student lives from armed assailants.  Any deviation = immediate firing from the school system and inability to be hired into teaching ever again.  Shooteachers must attend monthly gun awareness training which discusses recent events that occurred involving armed assailants, what was done right and what was done wrong.  Then the teacher must spend a minimum of 1 hour of paid time at the firing range being observed by someone who will report on their proficiency to the principle who is required to control all of this.

As I stated long ago and in many separate posts like this one, the outsourcing of our personal security to the police state would be a casualty of the declining liberalism.   This is just a recommendation so far which has to go to higher layers of bureaucracy before being considered policy, but the panel is clearly viewed as the experts here and so government now has to disagree with the experts if they they choose to not arm the teachers and "give them a fighting chance" in the words of the cop.