By Kendall Davis, Reporter, NBC-12

CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) -
What is the best way to keep students safe in school? That's the question being asked across the nation, as school shootings continue to happen.

Chesterfield Public Schools put together a task force to try and find the best solution. Now, they have a proposal to put an "Armed Security Mentors" in every elementary school.

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Chesterfield already has school resource officers (SROs) at every middle and high school. This proposal will put an armed staff member at every elementary school in case of a tragedy.

"We're just examining the big picture at this point," said Safety and Security Manager Donald Green.

Green is a part of a working group for the Chesterfield School Safety Task Force, looking into security operations for the schools.

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Last week, they presented a proposal to put armed security mentors in their elementary schools.

"A retired police officer who can be armed security, so that if the worst case scenario happens, we have immediate response there on site," said Green.

These armed security mentors would be retired law enforcement officers, employed part-time by the school. That's different from SROs, who work for Chesterfield Police.

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