Some people have an emotional collapse just hearing someone in the same room say the word ‘guns’. Pathetic and all emotion based, no logic at all.
Approved Teacher: Logic? Oh, that. It is an unimportant subject.
People are trying to conflate two things that were not even suggested together.
Arming teachers, so they have a Glock pistol or an AR-15 rifle within arms’ reach, on a rack under the desk or even up on the wall, and
All teachers should be armed.
Both, separately and especially so if taken together, are utter nonsense. First of all, if the teacher is supposed to be armed, it will be Conceal Carry, not openly. And not all teachers, or even not very many of them, should be in possession of a weapon, only those with sufficient training and experience in the feel and purposes of a weapon, and the will to use it if need arises. And a disruptive student in the back of the room is an instance in which the need should not arise, but but who knows how these things can escalate.
Much better, would to make a mandatory course in which all students should be taught the basics of the care, feeding, grooming and appropriate use of fire arms, with an especial stress on safety while handling said weapon. This serves to both demystify guns in general, and to help identify the careless or malevolent personalities that should never, in any circumstances, be permitted to get their hands on a real live loaded weapon. A second, and perhaps even more important aspect of this course, would be to show these same students, in the event they are faced with a live fire situation, how to avoid, evade, or in extreme instances, how to incapacitate the active shooter in some way, by isolating or even making a rush during a moment he is distracted. It does take a finite amount of time to release and replace a magazine, or switch to another weapon. That moment can be golden.