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.
So you know, I am about 80% supportive of public school and we home schooled our first child for several years. I also loved (especially Ms. Brown–can’t revel her real name), cherished and admired many of my public school teachers who were dedicated, intelligent, hard working and perfectly adept at teaching me and others. Moreover, some of the ones that were quirky, flawed and very human, were some of the best.
Yet, ask yourselves, how many of your public school teachers would you have wanted to be packing heat regardless of any amount of training? And how confident are you that the schools are equipped financially and politically 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 was about 5-6 of those who I would trust packing heat at all times. But 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 9 would have shot themselves or others by accident for various reasons including using the barrel to scratch their asses and other itchy places, 8 would have shot inanimate objects just to be funny or out of spite, 7 would have shot into the air/ceiling to get our attention, 6 would have shot themselves in moments of school-house-despair-and-misery, 5 would have shot parents at teacher/parent night, 4 would have shot the Principal, 3 would have shot the PTA President, 3 would have shot a student or two and 1 would have shot the entire football team.
Loren M. Lambert © July 31, 2013
So you know, I am about 80% supportive of public school and we home schooled our first child for several years. I also loved (especially Ms. Brown–can’t revel her real name), cherished and admired many of my public school teachers who were dedicated, intelligent, hard working and perfectly adept at teaching me and others. Moreover, some of the ones that were quirky, flawed and very human, were some of the best.
Yet, ask yourselves, how many of your public school teachers would you have wanted to be packing heat regardless of any amount of training? And how confident are you that the schools are equipped financially and politically 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 was about 5-6 of those who I would trust packing heat at all times. But 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 9 would have shot themselves or others by accident for various reasons including using the barrel to scratch their asses and other itchy places, 8 would have shot inanimate objects just to be funny or out of spite, 7 would have shot into the air/ceiling to get our attention, 6 would have shot themselves in moments of school-house-despair-and-misery, 5 would have shot parents at teacher/parent night, 4 would have shot the Principal, 3 would have shot the PTA President, 3 would have shot a student or two and 1 would have shot the entire football team.
Loren M. Lambert © July 31, 2013
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