Chinook school discusses allowing guns on campus, strip searches

A recent decision by the Chinook School Board to authorize certain people to carry a firearm at school and comment at a back to school assembly about the legality of strip searches has angered a number of parents with children in the school system and caused one teacher to quit after 10 years at the district.

Chinook Public Schools Superintendent Fred Hofman said the firearm decision by the board comes after months of deliberation after a school shooting threat that occurred in Chinook High School back in May, but some, including then-teacher Courtney Bell, said they feel their voices were not...