teachers (images/ideas of teachers in the wake of Florida)

zn wrote:

All West Virginia public schools remain closed as teachers continue to strike

All 680 public schools in West Virginia are closed for the third day as thousands of teachers walked out to fight for higher wages and benefits — a first in the state’s history. According to the National Education Association, WV educators are the 48th lowest-paid in the country.

And with that WV became the only state in the country to effectively protect its children from a mass shooting at school.

Lol.

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A black teacher was interviewed the other day on NPR and was so on point, bringing up a rather neglected issue in the discussion. She was brilliantly concise, and I wish she had been there at the White House to talk to President Flip Flop.

Can’t reproduce how well she said it, but the gist of the matter is this: Police in America have a history of shooting black people first, asking questions later. So, a black teacher has a gun in an active shooter situation. Police arrive. They’re gonna shoot the teacher.

She also brought up the issue of shooting students by mistake, in the chaos of the situation, etc. etc.

And I would add . . . the permanent damage done to any teacher who has to kill someone. You guys are probably well aware of the studies done about our military . . . How so few soldiers in WWI and even into WWII actually fired their weapons at other humans, which “worried” the military brass. So they instituted special psych-ops training to increase the kill rates. They went waaay up for Vietnam, and Iraq. But people have to be trained/desensitized to kill. Humans have a “natural,” internal taboo against it.