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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump gets his way and requires teachers to be armed.....
what happens to those teachers that are (lets say) on depression meds? Or those that have been in a previous shooting and have PTSD? For their own safety, what happens if they are forced to carry a gun around all day long? What about devout pacifists? What about true Christians that believe in turning the other cheek to killing another person? Do they get to keep their jobs? Will they be branded as not good enough or not as good as their co -workers who are packing?....we already know they won't get paid as much under Trumps plan.
What a horrid, impractical idea.
then there's this:
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
Public school systems will employ about 3.2 million full-time-equivalent (FTE) teachers in fall 2017,
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/
There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States,
Pressing this issue, I think the NRA is looking for a significant increase in sales...another bang up money maker for them and the manufacturers they represent! Not to mention the millions of kids that will be future purchasers who would be conditioned into thinking that safety would only come with possession of a firearm.
marybourg
(12,584 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)marybourg
(12,584 posts)wants to take on extra responsibilities while doing a job, they should, and generally do, get paid more. That neither amounts to "requiring", nor coersion. And I'm confident you know that.
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)He'll be proposing some new idiotic idea by Monday. I refuse to take anything he says or proposes seriously.
Fuck Trump.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Our current gub-mint, nothing would surprise me. Should it be required, having been a teacher I can assure you the walk-outs and the backlash would be formidable. Teachers leaving the profession en masse. But maybe thats what Republicans want!
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)and say it was all the liberals fault it did not work.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)The GOP will hail that as a victory.