Guns in schools. Are we ready? How would you feel if you had a pistol packing teacher for your English or Math class? Or the class you fell asleep in every day?
After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, Trump wants to arm teachers. In some states, teachers think it's a crazy idea. In other states, like Ohio, teachers are already packing.
"Doesn't it get to be too much," asked Brianne Solomon, a teacher in West Virginia. "On top of all the things we do, to have to remember when we're supposed to use a gun?"
A guidance counselor in Baltimore, Maryland, thinks often about a time he had to tackle a student to the ground who shot a classmate in the back with a gun in their school's cafeteria.
He told the New York Times, "Never have I thought, 'I wish I'd had a gun,'" and that he thinks the president's idea of arming teachers is "simplistic and misguided."
On the other hand, according to the New York Times, "more than 100 districts in Texas" have been arming teachers with weapons since 2007, and Dallas Republican and State Representative Jason Villalba thinks that the president has recognized that teachers carrying guns is "clearly...the solution to the problem that we're seeing around the country."
And the world, continues to turn...
Read the commentary above, then comment on the following: "What would schools become if teachers are armed with guns in schools?"
1. INCLUDE: First initial AND last name AND class period.
2. Respond in no more than 10 sentences and no less than five.
3. You MUST respond to at least TWO other posts from any student. Your replies cannot be identical comments on different posts and posting shallow comments such as "I agree" or "I disagree" will earn you a zero. Make sure your reply addresses the comment that you are responding to.
Be sure to--
CAUTION!! Do NOT embarrass me, yourself, your class, the English department, the school or your parents with tasteless, meaningless comments. This is for a grade.
Due: Fri., March 2, 2018 11:59 p.m. CST
After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, Trump wants to arm teachers. In some states, teachers think it's a crazy idea. In other states, like Ohio, teachers are already packing.
"Doesn't it get to be too much," asked Brianne Solomon, a teacher in West Virginia. "On top of all the things we do, to have to remember when we're supposed to use a gun?"
A guidance counselor in Baltimore, Maryland, thinks often about a time he had to tackle a student to the ground who shot a classmate in the back with a gun in their school's cafeteria.
He told the New York Times, "Never have I thought, 'I wish I'd had a gun,'" and that he thinks the president's idea of arming teachers is "simplistic and misguided."
On the other hand, according to the New York Times, "more than 100 districts in Texas" have been arming teachers with weapons since 2007, and Dallas Republican and State Representative Jason Villalba thinks that the president has recognized that teachers carrying guns is "clearly...the solution to the problem that we're seeing around the country."
And the world, continues to turn...
Read the commentary above, then comment on the following: "What would schools become if teachers are armed with guns in schools?"
1. INCLUDE: First initial AND last name AND class period.
2. Respond in no more than 10 sentences and no less than five.
3. You MUST respond to at least TWO other posts from any student. Your replies cannot be identical comments on different posts and posting shallow comments such as "I agree" or "I disagree" will earn you a zero. Make sure your reply addresses the comment that you are responding to.
Be sure to--
- Be clear about your position
- Provide specific support for your argument
- Use rhetorical devices and other grammar elements
- Write EPIC Content-Engaging, Powerful, Informative, Creative
CAUTION!! Do NOT embarrass me, yourself, your class, the English department, the school or your parents with tasteless, meaningless comments. This is for a grade.
Due: Fri., March 2, 2018 11:59 p.m. CST
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