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I woke up later then I intended.

Someone vacuuming outside my door at 8 a.m.

I had an awful dream where I was at the local mall when someone lit explosives inside it and set it aflame. I escaped but many people were trapped inside or couldn't get out unharmed. Then I waited for my mother to show up and take me home but when she did I'd suddenly find myself back in the mall where the incident repeated itself over and over like some horrible version of Groundhog's Day. I heard one person say that nothing can fully prepare us for terrorist attacks. When I finally woke up I felt like my whole body was made of lead.

Also I'm out of money and couldn't go to the grocery store because today is Victoria Day and my mom wasn't working so she couldn't give me any grocery money and drive me down. I spent too much money during our trip last week and I'm running out of groceries.

It seems much has been troubling unto you as of late, whereabouts I show a great amount of sincerity

People out in the world.

I woke up this morning to learn that in response to school shootings, the Lt. Governor of Texas wants to ARM teachers. As a teacher with 29 years of diversified experience, I think this would be a really bad idea.



If the presence of law enforcement officers at other schools (like Parkland) did not serve to deter a shooter, why would having armed teachers on campus make any difference?

During lock downs, we are trained to lock our doors and to have students sit quietly on the floor against a wall out of direct line of sight from any door. Many of us have already permanently covered the tiny windows in these doors. My classroom doors, which are propped open with a wedge, are already locked. In the event of a lock down, I have the students move against a wall. I shut the lights. I also secure the doors.

Any armed teachers on campus would have to breach the security of their locked door which would momentarily expose the students in that room to potential danger.

Teachers are not trained in clearing a building like police officers. Poor or non-existent training coupled with high tension could result in a friendly fire incident with teachers firing on other teachers or even students.

Worse yet, responding officers would now have to differentiate between armed intruders and armed teachers. An armed teacher could be mistaken for an intruder and shot.

Other concerns that flitted through my mind after hearing this news include firearm safety. Would armed teachers wear their weapons in holsters or would they have them stored on campus. If these weapons were stored, would they be kept in a gun safe? Who would pay for this gun safe? Who would pay for teacher weapons and training.

If armed teachers wore a holster, what would keep students from grabbing the weapon out of the holster. It would be the height of irony if a weapon from an armed teacher were to facilitate a school shooting simply because the teacher was unable to keep his or her weapon secured.

There have now been 23 school shootings this year. Some anchors on TV have suggested that this is the "new normal". This does not feel normal. No other country has had this number of incidents.

I can't even imagine. The US is totally messed.

If I lived in USA I'd be homeschooling, all the way.

My ex is on the warpath, I've had about 50 text messages. Oh s**t

Ex-spouse or ex-dating partner?

If you have kids, respond.
If not, delete.

Kids? Nope...so yeah, lots of deleting. Out of ten she scares me about 6.5

All the more reason to delete.

Indeed

Grey Rock

Look up "grey rock" as a response option.

Thanks for the link, just got my stuff back, messages have stopped. Phew....

Good.

Stay grey.

In one skewl a teacher accidentally left his gun in the bathroom & a homeless guy found it & fired a shot checking to see if it was real & loaded. In another skewl a student took a policeman's gun out of his holster & fired some shots(I cant remember if people got shot or not)