I agree with the punishment aspect of your article. However, expecting teachers to carry firearms and to run toward school shooters is a vast misunderstanding of teachers and the personality types that choose teaching, whether elementary or secondary. Most are females and did not go into the profession to save lives and potentially sacrifice themselves, but to have a meaningful job that also allows them time for raising children. I taught for 16 years and I did not meet one teacher that I would trust with a firearm much less my and my students safety in an active shooter situation. That is just not the type of people we are dealing with in education. Not to denigrate the profession, but it is what it is. I didn’t want to be a cop, that is why I was a teacher. The vast majority of teachers are liberal anyway and will never choose to accept guns in schools much less actually train and carry in the classroom. I had to laugh at the visual of the middle-aged female teacher with the open-carry in front of the classroom. Never gonna happen. FWIW, I am super conservative, taught in Oklahoma, a super red state, and my husband is a fire arms instructor. We should not expect any more from teachers beyond teaching their subject matter.
I understand the emphasis; my argument is that not enough would be willing, and of those willing, some would still be incapable. We are asking educators to do something that is clearly not in their psychological wheelhouse, otherwise they would never have gone into teaching in the first place. Anyone that has sat through a staff meeting even in a high school knows this to be true. Even former military that have gone into teaching are not ones I want to see armed and potentially relied upon during a school shooting.
A honest discussion on SSRIs and the impact on the brains of young men. It is no coincidence that the rise of high profile school shootings starting with Columbine came along with the mass drugging of young men with SSRIs. Show me a school shooter it is a near certainty that he was on antidepressants.
All excellent points. They would not only reduce the frequency of these crimes, but this mindset would also do wonders to restore normalcy to our society. We must pull it back from the trend of weak, perpetual infantilazation that seems to have infected so much of the world.
R.U. Nuts? Any community that instituted these policies would be sued by the ACLU and subsequently bankrupt and closed. We are not going back to the Middle Ages, we are going to tolerate the intolerable because that’s who we are.
Very few capable teachers left in schools. It’s mostly purple haired woke idiots teaching our kids. First, I would never send my child to the indoctrination camp we call public school. Second, much better to have professionals guarding the schools to prevent the craziness even entering the building in the first place. Third, even under duress your average law enforcement officer is fairly inept at close quarter combat techniques and may not have the skills needed. Example, I know some SWAT guys who entered the movie theater in the Holmes shooting. There were people in the audience with concealed carry handguns. They couldn’t get a shot off without getting killed or killing a bystander. In general I agree with the harsh punishment and the fact that something must be done. Not sure arming the groomers is the best way.
I agree with the punishment aspect of your article. However, expecting teachers to carry firearms and to run toward school shooters is a vast misunderstanding of teachers and the personality types that choose teaching, whether elementary or secondary. Most are females and did not go into the profession to save lives and potentially sacrifice themselves, but to have a meaningful job that also allows them time for raising children. I taught for 16 years and I did not meet one teacher that I would trust with a firearm much less my and my students safety in an active shooter situation. That is just not the type of people we are dealing with in education. Not to denigrate the profession, but it is what it is. I didn’t want to be a cop, that is why I was a teacher. The vast majority of teachers are liberal anyway and will never choose to accept guns in schools much less actually train and carry in the classroom. I had to laugh at the visual of the middle-aged female teacher with the open-carry in front of the classroom. Never gonna happen. FWIW, I am super conservative, taught in Oklahoma, a super red state, and my husband is a fire arms instructor. We should not expect any more from teachers beyond teaching their subject matter.
I think the emphasis is more on allowing those who are willing, to be armed rather than requiring unwilling people to be armed.
I understand the emphasis; my argument is that not enough would be willing, and of those willing, some would still be incapable. We are asking educators to do something that is clearly not in their psychological wheelhouse, otherwise they would never have gone into teaching in the first place. Anyone that has sat through a staff meeting even in a high school knows this to be true. Even former military that have gone into teaching are not ones I want to see armed and potentially relied upon during a school shooting.
A honest discussion on SSRIs and the impact on the brains of young men. It is no coincidence that the rise of high profile school shootings starting with Columbine came along with the mass drugging of young men with SSRIs. Show me a school shooter it is a near certainty that he was on antidepressants.
All excellent points. They would not only reduce the frequency of these crimes, but this mindset would also do wonders to restore normalcy to our society. We must pull it back from the trend of weak, perpetual infantilazation that seems to have infected so much of the world.
R.U. Nuts? Any community that instituted these policies would be sued by the ACLU and subsequently bankrupt and closed. We are not going back to the Middle Ages, we are going to tolerate the intolerable because that’s who we are.
Very few capable teachers left in schools. It’s mostly purple haired woke idiots teaching our kids. First, I would never send my child to the indoctrination camp we call public school. Second, much better to have professionals guarding the schools to prevent the craziness even entering the building in the first place. Third, even under duress your average law enforcement officer is fairly inept at close quarter combat techniques and may not have the skills needed. Example, I know some SWAT guys who entered the movie theater in the Holmes shooting. There were people in the audience with concealed carry handguns. They couldn’t get a shot off without getting killed or killing a bystander. In general I agree with the harsh punishment and the fact that something must be done. Not sure arming the groomers is the best way.