I did notice it wasn't any of the districts with the widely publicized armed teachers.
But they had a
retired Houston cop (was it "detective"?) as a school resource officer. I give the guy full credit fior having engaged the shooter rather than hiding in the parking lot, but I'm going to risk a flak attack by saying that I don't think retired officers should be school resource officers. The deputy at Parkland wasn't retired, but he was
effectively retired. He was a thirty-year veteran, and I'm sure he viewed being the school cop as an easy job to let him pile up more years toward his pension.
Back to Texas. A retired cop isn't getting regular training, and if he was a detective he probably hadn't undergone much tactical training for years even before he retired. I know a cop in a nearby town who retired as a sergeant, then took a job as a conductor on a commuter railroad. Easy money, and he'll soon qualify for a second pension. I'm sorry, but I view a retired Houston cop working as a school resource officer in a smaller jurisdiction in the same light. I doubt he ever expected to encounter a shooter (how many of the people interviewed basically said they never thought it would happen "here" -- even though that has equally applied to every other mass shooting) -- I think he looked at it as a sinecure to supplement his pension. As I said -- full credit to him for responding rather than hiding, but ... was he really prepared, mentally and physically and by training, to respond
effectively to a shooter?