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ARMING TEACHERS
As a 35+ year educator, I can tell you that many, many people will NOT enter education as a profession if they are required to carry guns—it’s a different mindset. All the teachers in my generation went into education as a way of giving back—a community service of sorts. I think it was spurred by coming of age in the 1960s.
As a teacher, your FIRST priority is your students: educating them, nurturing them, protecting them—but NOT by having a shoot-out with them all around. When you are trying to be the adult in the room, keep them from panicking, get them to the safest place, the LAST THOUGHT would be to fetch a weapon, leave them and begin shooting in the hall.
Just NO! Where the hell have we come in 60 years? And as for the current political climate: of COURSE the NRA/gun manufacturers are supportive. Arming teachers=even more guns sold=more $$ in their pockets. And isn’t that their end game?
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