Posted on 08/19/2008 5:34:17 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If your child's school was invaded by Columbine-style killers, methodically murdering students in cold blood, would you want teachers to shoot to stop them? Gayle Fallon wouldn't. For that matter, Fallon doesn't think teachers "have it in them" to even try to save their students' lives. Fallon, the president of a teachers union in Houston, TX, made her views known during an Early Show segment this morning conducted by Harry Smith.
The topic was a decision adopted by a rural north Texas school district to permit teachers to carry guns in the classroom. As Harrold, TX School Superintendent David Thweatt explained, the decision was prompted by the school's close proximity to an interstate [presumably making it a tempting target], and its remoteness—thirty minutes away from law enforcement. Thweatt made clear that all guns have to be approved by the school board and teachers have to undergo extensive safety and related training. None of that mattered to Fallon.
HARRY SMITH: Gayle, when you first heard about this, what was your reaction?
GAYLE FALLON: Initially I thought it was a joke. However, after a couple of media calls, we realized it wasn't and we were asked whether our district would consider it, and it was absolutely no way would we consider it. One of the things that hit me is, you know, Colombine and the other incidents were generally initiated by students. Now, I've been around teachers a long time. They don't have it in them to aim at a student and kill him. They'll freeze. Nor would I want them to.
View video here.
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Guess she never saw the movie “The Substitute”.
HISD... Houston.
Amen. A school district close to here actually asks on the application of one has a CC permit. I've never been sure if they ask because they think it is good, or if they're asking because they think it's bad.
No way. She(Gayle Fallon) says it is the Union's district.
So who did “The Early Show” interview for the pro position? I mean in the spirit of fairness...
Ms. Fallon ..... guess you didn’t hear about the Va. Tech professor who blocked his classroom door against the shooter with his own body to give his students more time to jump out windows .... and was killed. He didn’t even have a gun ....”
When I think back to the teachers I had over 50 years ago, I am totally convinced that any one of then would have done anything to protect us kids. Armed or not, they would have gone down fighting.
Guess Ms Fallon is another example of the dumbing down of America and the total yellow stripe teachers are trying to instill into kids today.
There is a time to fight...and this person doesn’t get it.
Hope she never has to stand up for herself someday. She won’t make it.
She looks like Madelyn Murray O’Hare.
One of the faces behind the ongoing Pussyfication of America.
“Yeek! A rat. Don’t hurt it!”
The Dean of Boys at my high school had been a very acomplished amateur boxer. The big loudmouth of our senior class, (you know, the guy with the tatoo who was already signed up to go into the Marines) mouthed off to the Dean during a visit while our PE class was doing boxing. Bad move.
The Dean didn't hurt the guy, but the idiot never laid a glove on the Dean.
This B*tch is another reason to HOMESCHOOL!!
All my male high school teachers were veterans of WWII and the Korean War. I have not doubt they would have done what needed to be done. They wouldn't have liked it but they would not have hesitated, that's for sure.
Of course, it would not have ever crossed our adolescent/young adult minds to do such a thing to start out with.
Things have changed and not for the better.
“look for the union label”.
She the local Union Prez for HISD... This was on the local news here...
They don't make them like that anymor, and if they did, they wouldn't let them be wardens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064389/posts
Another artical; it states what I said in the first paragraph...
More accurately, they are the type of fowl that is often associated with Sanders, Perdue or Tyson...
My father-in-law taught in Alaska. Carried a .44 for bears on the playground.
That’s a man baby! And his brain has turned to mush from too much union influence.
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