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Joe Raedle/Getty Images A survivor of the Florida school shooting wrote an op-ed claiming that the training teachers received on active shooters six weeks before the shootings saved lives. A teacher interviewed shortly after the event confirmed that the training took place, and that things “could have been a lot worse” without it. President Donald […]
Business Insider Editorial Director Henry Blodget explains why arming teachers, Trump’s favored strategy to prevent more school shootings, is unlikely to solve the problem. Will giving teachers guns help stop school shootings? Gun massacres are an American crisis. They aren’t a “price of freedom.” If we do nothing, they will happen again and again and […]
RT guests have sparred over Donald Trump’s suggestion that teachers should carry firearms to protect their students from “maniacs.” One called it an effective deterrent, while another said it would “militarize” schools. Trump’s statement, which has certainly raised quite a few eyebrows, comes in the wake of the deadly Florida school shooting earlier this month. […]
thesuperheroteacher/Instagram Teachers across the country have joined forces under the hashtag #ArmMeWith to share what they would prefer to be armed with instead of a gun. The campaign was born in response to President Donald Trump’s suggestion to arm “adept teachers” with concealed guns in the wake of the recent mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. The movement was created by […]
Thomson Reuters President Donald Trump said that if one of the victims of a Florida school shooting that killed 17 had been armed “he would have shot and that would have been the end of it.” Similar discussions have taken place in Kentucky, Colorado, North Carolina and Alabama in recent days and Wisconsin’s attorney general […]
President Donald Trump has floated the idea that arming teachers and school staff could prevent future massacres, as he met with Florida school shooting survivors, who demanded changes and solutions. “If you had a teacher with, who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly… And we’re going to be […]
Rawpixel/Shutterstock Author Glennon Doyle Melton met with her son’s teacher, who revealed that every Friday afternoon, she asks her fifth graders to fill out a sheet of paper. She asks them who they would like to sit with next week and who has been an exceptional class citizen that week. The teacher then looks for […]
A&E Seven young adults went undercover as students at a Kansas high school for the show “Undercover High” on A&E. They found that smartphones have made it harder and harder for teachers to do their jobs. Students are constantly distracted by phones in class, even though the school has a no-phone policy. At Highland Park […]
Elementary school teachers in Waterloo, Ontario are resorting to wearing Kevlar vests to protect themselves from their students. The unusual move is in response to rising classroom violence from pupils and not based on a fear of being shot. Teachers are donning protective gear made from Kevlar, a material used in body armour, which includes […]
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during liftoff. Onboard were seven astronauts, one of which was teacher Christa McAuliffe. She was selected from over 11,000 applicants for the position of NASA’s Teacher in Space. McAuliffe had plans to conduct lessons from Challenger; now those lessons will finally take place from the International […]
