Education

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"It's a terrible idea. It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea," Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education, said of arming educators. (Associated Press)

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"It's a terrible idea. It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea," Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education, said of arming educators. (Associated Press)

Stephen Pratt, a third-grade teacher from Alpine, Utah, is fingerprinted for a gun carry permit Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Christine Caldwell (left) receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy on Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, holds a pistol Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Carl Stubbs (center), principal of Valley View Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, looks on with other teachers Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Clark Aposhian (rear), president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun while Joanna Baginska, a fourth-grade teacher at Odyssey Charted School in American Fork, uses a 40 cal. Sig Sauer on Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Bobbi Frampton, a vocational teacher, listens Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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Cori Sorensen, a fourth-grade teacher at Highland Elementary School in Highland, Utah, receives firearms training Dec. 27, 2012, with a .357 magnum from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)

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The Harrold Independent School District in Harrold, Texas, has a policy allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, a controversial policy that's now being considered in at least five other states in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Angela K. Brown)

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Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Murphy High School athletic custodian Mike Gill, left, and maintenance man Stewart Lynch, right, asses the damage caused to the school by a Christmas Day tornado as residents clean up at first light Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)