You organize the classes by use of a school board meeting. From this, the Board can weed out which teachers as far as who can and cannot carry.
Why should that be a job requirement? Shouldn't students be taught by the best teachers, rather than the teachers who are willing to carry weapons on them? How are you going to explain the way you hired a poor teacher who was willing to carry a weapon instead of a good teacher who was not?
As far as parents go, after the board has had it's meeting, you then present it to the public via a town hall meeting. As far as keeping the identity of any teacher with a concealed weapon confidential, you answered that in your own words - "I assume would be one of the safety precautions you would take". They need not know. It's called chance. One may not like it, but why risk the security involved as to whom is carrying.
Except that parents who are not comfortable with teacher carrying weapons would no doubt insist that their children be taught by teachers who do not carry weapons. It wouldn't take long to work out which teachers are carrying and which are not.
You get them to respect the teacher. Let them know the teacher is their best friend in the course of a school day.
You should come into my classroom some time. I'll introduce you to a group of fiteen year-old boys who hate school, resent any male influence in their life, and are generally stubborn, obstinate and uncooperative.
Your plan sounds great in theory. The problem is that it only works once guns have been in schools for several years and everyone is used to the idea. In the meantime, it's a problem because students don't value school as an educational experience. They value it as a social one, especially in the public system.
How often have you heard of such a case ? It's minimal, at best.
Like I said, I can cite half a dozen cases in my local area that have happened in the past eighteen months. "Minimial at best" is not good enough.
There is no matter of dealing with teachers who may not want to carry. Nothing here is forcing them to carry.
Except for your previous implication that if teachers are unwilling to be armed, they cannot be employed:
From this, the Board can weed out which teachers as far as who can and cannot carry.
Do you really think that if a kid knows that a teacher is packing the he would even attempt to fool with them ?
It depends on the student in question and what they think of the teacher. Some might think that they can get the gun away from their teacher.
But would you give a gun to a teacher in which you know could be easily overpowered ? This is where the weeding out process takes effect.
Again, I refer you back to your earlier implication that teachers need to carry weapons in order to be able to get a job.
What if that frail sixty-year-old lady is considered to be one of the best teachers in the school, who is responbisble for raising students' marks to the point where the school is eligible for government grants to expand their programmes? And what if the ex-Marine is a casual teacher that the faculty has informed the school not to employ as a casual unless there is no other option?
Let me just draw you a comparison here of the situation you have created:
Right now, the New South Wales state government is trying to push through legislation dubbed "Local Schools, Local Decisions". As a part of this, schools will be given much more control over their budgets, and will have the power to hire whomever they want for whichever position they need to fill. It sounds great, but the legislation is deeply unpopular because funding for education is being slashed. There is a genuine concern that schools will be forced to hire casual teachers on a day-to-day basis just so that schools can save money, and therefore be given a more-flexible budget in the next year.
The same principle applies here: although the idea of having teachers with guns might sound nice, public fears over violent gun crime like the Sandy Hook massacre could result in schools making the willingness to carry a gun a job requirement. It shifts the condition of employment to a variable that is totally unrelated to their ability to teach. This creates a situation where the school could be forced to hire second-rate teachers because the best teachers refuse to carry weapons.
