my wife, a teacher, is in a facebook group for teachers that has thousands of members.

last night an undergrad posted "graduating this year in spring, will be teaching elementary, wondering what i need to buy so i can start as a teacher".

it had hundreds of replies, none of them with supplies she'd need. all: "run sister", "i'm leaving teaching", "find a new major before its too late" etc.

states across the nation are hiring people with no teaching degrees due to shortages.

make them buy their own guns and carry them and we'll have so many shortages schools will have to close.

this is a profoundly bad idea, award winningly bad in fact.

it isn’t a short term solution. It is impractical to get people to buy into this strategy right now. Even worse if it is mandated by law. For this to work, it would take time. You don’t just fire your workers when you need them.
They did that with pandemic, but school safety is not the pandemic.

how is creating a nationwide teacher shortage (new problem) to combat school shootings (let's face it, a small number per year compared to tens of thousands not having staff) with questionable effectiveness a solution? its a bigger problem, not a solution.

Stop selling bullets and no more shooting. see how easy it was Billy ?

I already have 10k+ and I’m not even american… what now?

While I wouldn't be opposed and actually would very much be in favor of allowing armed school staff that volunteer to be armed and attend training ultimately it isn't needed. We could secure all schools in the US within a month if we really wanted to, it would just cost money and it wouldn't score political points for either party. All we would really have to do is retrofit all existing buildings with bullet proof windows that lock and cannot be opened on the ground level, put a functional mechanical or RFID lock on every exterior door and keep them locked so people from the outside can't gain access, set up building access points with an intercom where people can state their business from outside and have to be buzzed in, have a monitored network of security camera's, and lock every classroom door. But even if we did all that people on site are going to have to start taking security seriously and follow proper security protocols.

You can't stop a determined clever person.

Yeah, let's put more walls and why not a permanent bullet-proof cage around every student lmao
You know you won't ever fix this issue if you try to fix it yourself.
Yeah let's not try to improve education so such things disappear by themselves because as someone said it earlier :

So an 8% increase in murders with guns in *checks notes* 26 years.
What's america's number look like?
Also keep in mind almost 100% of the gun murders here are organised crime members eliminating competition, not kids going to school with a backpack full of semi automatics.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Oct 28 2022 01:35am