Apparently, a school district in Arkansas is implementing its plan to train and arm its teachers. Remember, these are the same teachers that ultra-right-wing conservatives believe are incapable of teaching anything but Godless communistic pap to their children.
I am about 80 percent supportive of public school, and we home schooled our first child for several years. I also loved, cherished, and admired many of my own public school teachers (especially Ms. Brown – can’t reveal her real name) who were dedicated, intelligent, hard- working, and perfectly adept at teaching me and others. Moreover, some of the ones who were quirky, flawed, and very human, were some of the best.
Ask yourselves: How many of your public school teachers would you have wanted to be packing heat regardless of any amount of training? How confident are you that the schools are financially and politically equipped to provide training and oversight? What liability issues will thereby arise?
Here’s my answer to the first: I had about 65 different teachers, including coaches, in public school. There were about five or six of those who I would trust packing heat at all times. More importantly, several would have never been able to keep track of a gun, many would have been mortified to have to have one, about nine would have shot themselves or others by accident for various reasons (including using the barrel to scratch their asses and other itchy places), eight would have shot inanimate objects just to be funny or out of spite, seven would have shot into the air/ceiling to get our attention, six would have shot themselves in moments of school-house despair and misery, five would have shot parents at teacher/parent night, four would have shot the principal, three would have shot the PTA president, three would have shot a student or two, one would have shot the entire football team, and another would have shot the entire school band.
So, I ask: Should teachers be armed?
Loren M. Lambert © July 31, 2013
I am about 80 percent supportive of public school, and we home schooled our first child for several years. I also loved, cherished, and admired many of my own public school teachers (especially Ms. Brown – can’t reveal her real name) who were dedicated, intelligent, hard- working, and perfectly adept at teaching me and others. Moreover, some of the ones who were quirky, flawed, and very human, were some of the best.
Ask yourselves: How many of your public school teachers would you have wanted to be packing heat regardless of any amount of training? How confident are you that the schools are financially and politically equipped to provide training and oversight? What liability issues will thereby arise?
Here’s my answer to the first: I had about 65 different teachers, including coaches, in public school. There were about five or six of those who I would trust packing heat at all times. More importantly, several would have never been able to keep track of a gun, many would have been mortified to have to have one, about nine would have shot themselves or others by accident for various reasons (including using the barrel to scratch their asses and other itchy places), eight would have shot inanimate objects just to be funny or out of spite, seven would have shot into the air/ceiling to get our attention, six would have shot themselves in moments of school-house despair and misery, five would have shot parents at teacher/parent night, four would have shot the principal, three would have shot the PTA president, three would have shot a student or two, one would have shot the entire football team, and another would have shot the entire school band.
So, I ask: Should teachers be armed?
Loren M. Lambert © July 31, 2013
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