Sentences with phrase «arming school teachers»

In the wake of the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the 18th school shooting to occur in the U.S. in 2018, many have attempted to focus the debate on the possibility of arming school teachers and other school employees as a way of deterring and preventing future school shootings.

Most of the proposals being put forth by Trump and the NRA, such as arming school teachers, are meant only to deflect attention from the real problem: we allow dangerous people to own guns.

Also in the poll: An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support the SAFE Act along with proposed new gun control measures in the state, though they oppose the idea of arming school teachers.

He's also suggested arming school teachers.

He also said he «isn't opposed» to the idea of arming a school teacher as long as they're properly trained and licensed.

Prior to this week's White House announcement, Gov. Larry Hogan had already stated that he is against the president's push to arm school teachers.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

«The removal of this component, combined with the possibility of armed teachers in our schools, sets the stage for transforming our schools into prisons,» the NAACP said.

Rather than engage with this logic, many are suggesting that a possible solution to increasing school safety would be arming teachers.

Jesse Randal Davidson, a popular teacher at Dalton high school, is accused of firing shots in class, prompting debate on arming educators

Included in the proposals is a contentious, $ 67 million voluntary program to arm school staff, including teachers, trained by law enforcement to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Robert W. Runcie, the superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, said in an interview that he opposed arming teachers.

As Vox's German Lopez explains, there's no good research that supports this theory, particularly when it comes to arming teachers or others in schools:

The Senate president, Joe Negron, also a Republican, suggested a possible compromise on Friday, arming noninstructional school personnel rather than teachers.

He's hit the nail on the head, about making our kids safe in school, arming teachers who are qualified and having law enforcement on the premises.»

Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would hold schools liable for refusing to allow teachers to be armed for defense of themselves and their students.

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, after listening to a series of emotional stories and pleas to enhance school safety at the White House Wednesday, floated the idea of arming teachers and school staff, an idea that was met with support from many of the attendees.

Nicole Hockley, whose six - year - old son was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, took the microphone and told Trump she would rather arm teachers with ways to prevent shootings in the first place rather than with a firearm.

«If you had a teacher who was adept with the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly,» he said, stating that schools could arm up to 20 % of their teachers to stop «maniacs» who may try and attack them.

Students in Erie, Pennsylvania, need no longer worry about school shooters, as their teachers will now be armed.

President Trump has proposed arming teachers to help secure the nation's schools.

-- A Georgia high school teacher brought a gun to school and fired a shot, testing Trump's theory on the safety of arming teachers.

Trump has gone so far as to suggest incentivizing arming teachers, giving those who carry a gun to school bonuses.

TALLAHASSEE — For the first time in two decades, the Republican - controlled Legislature passed Wednesday night major gun - control measures while also agreeing to arm some teachers and other school staff.

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Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

Last month, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control bill that included a provision to arm some trained school employees — but not full - time teachers.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

About 8 in 10 Republicans say they prefer metal detectors (41 percent) and armed teachers (38 percent) to stricter gun laws (9 percent) when it comes to preventing gun violence in schools.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

While applauding teachers for doing everything that they could, LaPierre asked audiences to imagine how things might have gone differently if the school had been policed by armed personnel.

«We become, in effect, an educational arm of the charity, working with teachers, often at a school assembly, and then following up in the classroom.»

The Wisconsin Dairy Council, the nutrition education arm of WMMB, has six regional program managers throughout Wisconsin who work with school foodservice staff and teachers to promote the nutritional benefits of dairy products for students.

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The men and women in the Armed Forces, the President, the police, the firemen, teachers at school.»

Cuomo trained his crosshairs on seven New York Republican House members over the gun issue as Trump rolled out a school - safety plan long on NRA ideas like arming teachers and short on Democratic - backed proposals like universal background checks.

However, if you slaughter your family and then take your guns to the nearest school and murder children you can expect a violent reaction from armed police so I don't think they would be deterred by an armed teacher or two.

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

The president also intensified his calls for arming highly trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shooting massacres like the one that occurred in Parkland, even as he denounced active shooter drills that try to prepare students to survive a rampage.

The principal of a Queens middle school twisted teachers» arms to vote for joining a pet program of NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and launched a revenge campaign after peeking at the secret ballot, a probe found.

Trump's plan — coming from the NRA's talking points — to «harden» schools and arm teachers received a failing grade from parents, educators, school safety experts and public officials.

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

An armed Social Studies teacher holed up in a classroom and fired off a round inside a Georgia high school.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

The response to arming teachers as a way to combat school shootings sounds like any other debate about guns.

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