Posted on 02/23/2018 1:31:57 PM PST by EdnaMode
Teachers have taken to social media in the midst of a gun control debate following the Parkland, Florida, school shooting to push for an increase in classroom resources -- not the ability to carry guns in school.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump suggested that some teachers be armed, calling it a "great deterrent" to mass shootings on campus. Using the hashtag #ArmMeWith, teachers are proposing other resources they would rather be armed with, such as more funding, additional school counselors and smaller class sizes.
Olivia Bertels, a middle school English teacher in Kansas, and Brittany Wheaton, an English teacher in Utah, said they started the #ArmMeWith movement on Tuesday in response to the suggestion that more guns in schools would help make them safer.
"I went to college to educate children, not because I wanted to kill another human. If I wanted a job where I was responsible for carrying a firearm, I would have taken a different career path," Wheaton said. "Teachers already shoulder a huge burden when it comes to educating properly, due to lack of funding, support and resources and making sure their students are taken care of emotionally. Asking us to now carry the burden of having the responsibility to kill is irreparably damaging, even if we never have to discharge our weapon."
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You’ll be out of a job when all your students get killed
Better early retirement incentives won't hurt either.
Oh, boo hoo.
The poor snowflake teacher doesn’t want any adult responsibility.
Can’t say as I am surprised.
These NEA liberals are too attached to their ideology. A weapon is a resource.
But then maybe they need to go into the deep jungle without one.
They have failed miserably, and will continue to do so unless they abandon their wrong thinking.
Good grief!
Liberals have no sense of self preservation.
Barf o rama
Im sure Cruz would have done just fine with smaller classes and more books. And more counselors.
/ sarc
Never fear ladies: if you are attacked the police will wait outside until the gunfire stops.
Only if they use copies of the US Tax Code to stop bullets, I heard it’s very thick.
Once again, teachers’ unions trump sanity.
Let’s take the smaller classes route, and go for broke. Class size, zero.
More media whores looking to use the deaths of children to get attention. These are despicable people who refuse to accept a common sense way to fight mass shootings in schools.
Yeah. Give them a whistle. And more money for toys in the classroom.
/sarchasm - That gaping whole between a liberal-socialist and reality.
Using kids’ deaths to get more money.
I have a better idea.
Let’s abolish government schools. It seems that “mass shootings” only occur in government schools.
It’s a good first step toward reasonable school control. It’s for the children ... if it saves even one life, it’s worth it.
that's always their answer
Get rid of all guns?
If guns are bad maybe we should get rid of the police guns.
Get rid of the military's weapons too. Right?
Yeah exactly!
Agreed.
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