WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The security of scholars and academics is so essential to highschool leaders.

Life Christian Academy in White Home employed an armed guard final week after the taking pictures at The Covenant College in Nashville.

“I can not stand the considered something occurring to anybody on this campus, and my coronary heart simply goes out to the folks at The Covenant College. I simply can’t think about,” stated Beth Johnstone, principal and director of Life Christian Academy.

Simply shy of 200 youngsters attend the college for infants by means of third-grade.

Steven Beck is the brand new armed safety guard looking for the kids.

“These little youngsters are you want these are the blokes which can be going to guard us,” stated Beck. “It is rather a lot, you realize? Nevertheless it simply signifies that I obtained to concentrate extra. Watch extra and simply look in locations most individuals would not.”

To cowl a portion of the price of their new armed guard, preschool and after-school tuition goes up $5 per week starting April 17.

“I feel it is unhappy that that is what our society has come to, however like I stated earlier than we’ll do the whole lot we are able to to guard our kids. Regardless of how a lot it prices, we will preserve the kids protected, so if that is what it takes, we will do it,” stated Johnstone.

In different communities, native police departments are serving to with college safety. In partnership with the Tullahoma Police Division, starting Monday, six of the Tullahoma Metropolis Colleges campuses that don’t have already got an officer of their buildings every day will now have a police officer current daily.

“Since we’ve had ongoing conversations, it was actually a pure dialog to simply proceed it and transfer ahead with the notion that that is an acceptable time to maneuver officers into our colleges to shut out this college 12 months,” stated Dr. Catherine Stephens, the superintendent of Tullahoma Metropolis Colleges.

Analysis reveals college useful resource officers scale back some, however not all types of violence in colleges.