Posted on 02/28/2018 9:22:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An op-ed writer in The Washington Post says that if teachers are armed, they will be inclined to execute black and Hispanic children.
How long would it be, if Trump's plan became reality, before a teacher shoots a black student and then invokes the "I feared for my life" defense we continually hear from police officers who misinterpret young black people's behavior with deadly consequences?
A mountain of data on persistent racial biases and disparities in education and on police presence in schools – as well as a recent increase in racial harassment in schools – makes it clear that kids of color won't be safe if their teachers are carrying weapons.
I understand this fear. Most teachers are liberals, members of the National Educational Association (NEA), and liberals by their nature are sometimes racist, often violently so, against black people. Perhaps racism against blacks is in the DNA of the NEA.
Most high-profile mass shootings have been committed by white men, but metal detectors, school police and armed guards are disproportionately placed in public schools with majority black and other nonwhite students, along with locked gates, random sweeps, and a host of other surveillance and security measures to maintain control in their schools. Research shows that such practices foster hostile environments[.]
That's true. If you go to an inner-city school in Harlem or Chicago or Los Angeles or Oakland or many other cities, it is as safe as can be because, as we all know, white people are the cause of most violence. That's why white suburbanites flock to inner-city schools: because they know how safe they are. Now, if they could only get rid of all those racist locked gates and security guards at inner-city schools,
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WaPo is sick. They’ve got sick people there writing what’s they think is news.
Their desperation is showing.
That and they’re fn crazy.
I repeat what I said before, about people accusing others of what they’re guilty of.
#112 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3635133/posts?page=112#112
I like the photo on this page of Miss Tarmington, the social studies teacher with the belt fed machine gun. She will take care of her class, alright! Wink wink.
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