Maybe it's time for you to take a state-mandated test. Please answer the following questions.
In what universe should Texas educators carry guns to their workplace, which happens to be classrooms filled to overflowing with innocent young minds?
Should educators create an atmosphere that encourages learning or a prison-like police state that implements scare tactics?
Budget cuts have resulted in ridiculous work loads, leaving teachers with no free time to attend concealed handgun classes. Should these classes, along with target practice, become scheduled inservice days?
Who should supply the guns? The underpaid teachers who already buy school supplies their districts can no longer afford? Or should school districts stop wasting money on books, buildings, and technology and start purchasing more weapons?
Where would these guns be stored during the day? Will underpaid teachers have to provide their own safes to keep their weapons away from students who might steal them? Or should each teacher just strap a holster onto his or her belt, just for effect?
What happens when an overstressed or under-medicated educator with an overcrowded and/or under-motivated class has access to a gun to brandish to "get the students' attention"?
Don't teachers have enough responsibilities to juggle already? Do you know what teachers and administrators already do on any given day?
Is this your idea of a cost-cutting measure? Are you trying to tell our students and teachers their lives are not really worth the cost of hiring at least one well-trained law enforcement officer -- armed with a gun (or two) and a taser -- per campus to protect lives?
How do you feel about vigilante justice?
What did you learn from the Sandy Hook tragedy?
Should educators create an atmosphere that encourages learning or a prison-like police state that implements scare tactics?
Budget cuts have resulted in ridiculous work loads, leaving teachers with no free time to attend concealed handgun classes. Should these classes, along with target practice, become scheduled inservice days?
Who should supply the guns? The underpaid teachers who already buy school supplies their districts can no longer afford? Or should school districts stop wasting money on books, buildings, and technology and start purchasing more weapons?
Where would these guns be stored during the day? Will underpaid teachers have to provide their own safes to keep their weapons away from students who might steal them? Or should each teacher just strap a holster onto his or her belt, just for effect?
What happens when an overstressed or under-medicated educator with an overcrowded and/or under-motivated class has access to a gun to brandish to "get the students' attention"?
Don't teachers have enough responsibilities to juggle already? Do you know what teachers and administrators already do on any given day?
Is this your idea of a cost-cutting measure? Are you trying to tell our students and teachers their lives are not really worth the cost of hiring at least one well-trained law enforcement officer -- armed with a gun (or two) and a taser -- per campus to protect lives?
How do you feel about vigilante justice?
What did you learn from the Sandy Hook tragedy?
