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Armed guards are part of a business model based on profit. Since schools are not profit based, funding comes from taxpayers who are not and have never been willing to pay the price for such things.
Many schools border on bankruptcy already. Armed guards are not a viable option.

My hometown school has 450-ish kids, K-12. Two buildings. Two armed guards, full time, plus part-time coverage, say 4 total, conservatively. Average salary of say 25k. That's $100,000. The entire population is only a couple thousand people. You'd be asking them to pay $500/person. A family of 4 would be paying $2,000 a year. No way that's happening.

We do that very thing here. Its the whole parish not single towns the budget is divided in. Every township/city has the same coverage. Unfortunately its only middle and high schools. Maybe a few more mills on the tax renewal and we can budget some of our Deputies in every school. The program started with a Federal Grant and when the money ran out the School board and Sheriff's office worked together to budget it in. We have 28 Deputies assigned as school resourse officers full time.