Knock em Dead, Teacher

Originally posted 10.5.06

They want to arm the teachers now. Because the answer to guns is always more guns it seems.

I don't know what the answer is to keeping our schools safe. They have always been a battleground of raging hormones and lunch money taxers. Now they have become a holding room for hapless victims.

But I can't picture a gun in the hand of the math teachers or the english teachers or the science teachers of this nation and see a solution in it. It just doesn't work for me.

We want the kids to be safe. So surround them with weapons. We want teachers to be safe. So we teach them to mold the future with a gun in their hands.

Let's go back to the old school security - moats and fortress walls with guarded gates and maybe even a gargoyle or too. Let's start focusing on teaching our kids not too hate each other. Teaching them that words are gifts when used wisely but can be deadly weapons and should always be used responsibly, thoughtfully.

Let's try anything and everything before we turn to guns to solve the problem. Isn't that what we are asking of them?