Who would send their kids to a school where the teachers are willing to shoot them

[nadine_mn]

Let's be real for a minute...do you really want your kids taught by someone who is okay with gunning them down?

I went to a very small high school in a small town (pop 3,000) and many of my teachers had their own children in my class or at least in the school. We had the usual stereotypes of teachers: cool bro teacher that was awesome and relatable, sweet elderly who was everyone's grandma, slightly absent minded but good natured science teacher, an alcoholic or two, and a couple of teachers that really did not have the temperament to be near impressionable teens.

The ones you would trust with a gun (level headed in crisis) would never shoot a kid even if that kid was shooting up the school. The ones who were too unstable to trust with staple gun would be the first ones to shoot a kid for looking at him funny.

In my school, this idea of arming teachers would mean asking a teacher who was also a parent, to shoot not only a student he/she knew but probably has been friends or at least in the same classes as their own child, maybe had come over for birthday parties etc.

I am not a parent, but I cannot imagine sending my child to school knowing that the teachers were armed, that their children may go to school with my own, that these kids could have access to their parents guns ... guns the president had encouraged to own and carry. I would want my kids to feel like their teachers are role models, trusted safe adults they can turn to...not one that is capable of carrying out lethal force on a child.

How can we expect a teacher to look over their class and think "which of these children would I be willing to sacrifice my life for or willing to stop with a bullet?"

I don't recognize the world the GOP are expecting us to live in

[ffr]

1. It's that of the 3rd world countries. Where students, teachers and schools are constantly attacked

The conservative solution is to hold onto power at any cost. Hope that voters fall for NRA ads and elect them even while their kids are being slaughtered by NRA lobbied policies.

[guillaumeb]

2. And what sane person would propose this as a solution?

Recommended.

[jberryhill]

3. There are teachers willing to sexually abuse them

That’s not a knock against teachers. In a population of 3 million people, there is a statistical incidence of the deranged.

Yeah, sure, drop your kids off every day at a building in which there are ARMED ADULT STRANGERS. That’s just brilliant!

[nadine_mn]

4. The difference is we are not encouraging sexual abuse

The GOP solution is to arm teachers so they can shoot a child. That's an actual "solution". We have teachers who shouldn't be teaching either because they are abusive, incompetent, racist, bigoted, etc but no one is saying that the solution to teen pregnancy is to have teachers have sex with students.

And the teachers who volunteer to be armed should be on the short list to be fired

[hunter]

5. It's so absurd. The gun fetishists are insane. Maybe it's lead poisoning. I don't know.

I'm imaging the teacher who quiets a class down by shooting the ceiling.

BAM!

"Okay, class, now that I've got your attention, please turn to Chapter Four in your text..."

Soon enough there's a hole in the roof big enough for a goose to fall through.

"Can't stay in your seat, Johnny? It's time to dance!"

(Shoots at Johnny's feet...) BAM! BAM! BAM!

[OhioBlue]

6. Good points and we just can't put this on teachers and school staff.

It is so extreme to think the solution is to arm teachers and administrators. My goodness, they have enough stress. To expect them to arm themselves, get proper training in firearms, weaponized combatant training, etc. just defies logic. Plus, I would argue that the type of training and the psychological mindset needed for law enforcement is opposite of the training and mindset we want for teachers.