In the Miami-Dade Public Schools, if a kid is attacked and fights back, he still gets suspended as a matter of policy. This teaches submission to government authority and servility.
The surprise for me is that schools are as safe as they are.
They're not. You just don't get to see the violence or hear the reports because they're suppressed also as a matter of policy. I see the violence every day. Last year we had four gun incidents including a teacher who had a gun shoved in his face.
OTOH, I also know of more than a few teachers who keep guns in their cars as a matter of course. They know the value of being armed in an emergency. Colombine and Pearl Mississippi being seared into their psyches. Now the terror attack in Russia. It wouldn't surprise me if the incidence of armed (covertly or stored in an auto) teachers doesn't rise rather dramatically. I'd rather risk my job than the lives of my students.
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