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Teachers are there to teach air marshals are there to be air marshals. Now if you were talking about school resource officers and expanding that program I would be 100% with you since they are basically the school version of air marshals.
That's fine as well. Just thought having special teachers rotating around would also help as well.
Probably the same reason they added air marshalls to flights rather than arming the flight attendants. If they armed flight attendants it would probably create more security problems than it would solve.
I think it has to do with the fact that teachers are paid and trained to develop curricula and teach the children in their care, whereas air marshals are trained and paid to evaluate and eliminate lethal threats in a tightly controlled environment.
Air marshals are law enforcement officers, whereas teachers are not law enforcement officers but professional educators.
We experienced 9/11, and one of the solutions was to randomly place armed people on each flight to deter subsequent hijackings.
Why is arming teachers and randomly placing them throughout schools in a district and properly training them in gun use and basic tactics (basically, half-cop/half-teacher) considered so extreme? I think randomly arming teachers might not be too good of idea, but to create a new type of cop: half teacher/half cop is certainly something to think about.
Air Marshalls don't have to teach children, they are trained Police Officers
My dad spent 40 years in a public high school, the last 15 years as an assistant principal. My mom is still teaching in a kindergarten classroom. Both shake their heads at the idea of arming teachers and administrators. Teaching is already one of the most stressful jobs, arming them is a recipe for tragedy with no guarantee it'll stop the next mass school shooting. Furthermore, with budget cuts and low test scores, the last thing we need to be doing is diverting teachers from lesson planning, grading, graduate studies in order to provide them the extensive training (including yearly refresher courses) on gun safety/crisis management/range practice/mental health reviews/etc.
And a small school in Texas has had armed teachers since 2006. Number of problems? 0!
If you conservatives are serious about protection in schools, then let's raise taxes to fund permanent qualified and trained military/police guards in schools, which is what they do in Israel. As it is today, we can't even fund the teachers' jobs, much less anything else. Now you're going to ask them to educate your kids for peanuts AND play police officer on demand? Get a clue, you people.
(Actually, that's the sound of your irony going right over the gun fondlers' heads. )
I think you mean over the anti-gunners heads....
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