I think the teaching and security roles should be kept separate, simply let each do what they do best. Nothing wrong with having a new job market for qualified individuals who know what serving a greater purpose is all about.
Regardless of how the appropriate security is implemented, the status quo cannot stand as it is now. I'll educate my children myself in the safety of my own home before I'll let politics determine the extent to which they can't be safeguarded.
When you're the bureaucrat in charge of this type stuff you make up some BS excuse, such as; "Oh guarding former officer chickenshit is just a temporary utilization of those resources whereas using them to protect the school would tie those resources up indefinitely."
I'm so pissed off about this I can't even see straight.
Supreme Court has ruled LEOs have no obligation to protect the public. That aside, he's a chickenshit cockwaffle and I hope the faces of the murdered children haunt his dreams until his death.
Come to the Fall Shoot and you'll get loads of 1-on-1 info like that, and get to implement it real-time with an expert on the subject matter. I've learned a metric ton of stuff on the shoots.
Come to an AZ shoot and Tom and myself will workshop your sorry hide into dangerous proficiency.
If you don't believe me, ask JB Matt, I doped him perfectly onto a first-round 300 yard hit, with his .45 ACP sidearm.
Pardon the expression, but the long and short of it is that your buffer tube length and your buffer length dictate the length of travel for your bolt carrier group. The spring and the weight of the buffer determine it's efficacy of function. When we can determine which components you have, we can remedy any incongruous components depending on what typical system your setup most closely resembles.