Teachers Are Not Soldiers
A marine-turned-teacher argues that it's impossible to prepare educators to effectively use a gun in a crisis.
In response to the Parkland school shooting last month, a handful of Florida legislators recently approved two bills that would set aside tens of millions of dollars to train teachers to carry firearms. The legislation echoes calls from President Trump and others for schools to arm teachers as a solution to prevent more campus massacres from happening. “We have to let the bad guy know that they are hardened,” Trump said at a White House meeting last week, suggesting that schools give bonuses to teachers who carry guns.
But these efforts to create warriors out of teachers as a means of addressing school shootings are wrongheaded. I used to
