(03-21-2018, 12:01 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(03-21-2018, 11:49 AM)B2hibry Wrote: I can see it as an alternative for after-school activities perhaps, but really see it introducing more issues than help during school hours. How many times do we see in the news some teacher getting the snot beat out of them in a classroom setting? Imagine a student discovering that teacher had a sidearm in that very situation. In reality, no armed individual should be alone in an environment that thrives on a pack mentality. Also, most of these shooting take place going from the outside-in, where teachers aren't. Perhaps just arming willing and qualified administrators? What I can appreciate in all this, is that a discussion is being sparked to how best to finally address a situation that isn't new and doesn't automatically assume no guns, no knives, no bats= no problem.

In my perspective, not knowing which teachers were armed - but knowing the possibility that the teacher could be, would likely deter and curb aggressive behavior towards teachers.

Students attacking teachers is an indicator of a problem administration who can't keep school order, because they've slowly lost their ability to keep order over time.  In that case, they need to clean house on that administration and start over.  It's always easier to ease up than tighten down.  So, to change a culture of no discipline you have to make wholesale changes to the administration and staff.  That's not a gun issue, it's a poor school discipline/management issue.

Sure thing. It sounds like you've spoken to what I think is the root cause of all this hu-bub in the media lately. Not a gun issue, it is a cultural issue that festers at school because funding has created an environment where school boards/teachers/administrators just don't have the resources necessary to go beyond basic teaching, let alone discipline or pinpointed attention. School discipline and management are issues in nearly every medium to large school throughout the country. Precisely why an additional responsibility like a firearm being introduced to teachers could be something other than a deterrent. I know there are schools in Texas and Washington State that have implemented the gun/teacher thing and are doing well but not sure there is correlation considering these schools are mostly in rural areas not typically hampered by the issue of school violence.

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