Addressing the Debate Surrounding Arming Teachers

Addressing the Debate Surrounding Arming Teachers
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Addressing the Debate Surrounding Arming Teachers
Assaults in schools have been on the rise, and no administrative move has been made to curb them. In effect, stakeholders in the education sector have chosen to take matters seriously by preparing and training teachers on the best way to utilize weapons. This is a precautionary move to see teachers act proficiently during assaults whenever an emergency necessitates self-defense and securing learners. This paper explores various reasons why teachers should not be armed.
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The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which led to the killing of twenty children and six staff members, served as an ill-fated eye-opener to many schools to rethink the decision to arm teachers (Education Week). Since the unfolding of this unfortunate instance, many school districts have been contemplating equipping educators with concealed weapons to help counter unforeseen eventualities (Facione et al., 2016). Lori Snyder-Lower, the superintendent of Morgan Local School District, argues that the response time for emergency services may not always be prompt. She notes that the response team may take hours to get to the school and the scene depending on different circumstances, which unfairly predisposes the students and teachers to more risk and makes learning institutions' soft targets.' However, the move to equip teachers with weapons faces hurdles from the federal and some state laws, which designate schools as gun-free zones. Jennifer Harper, the deputy director of Moms Demand Action, shares similar sentiments arguing that equipping teachers does not necessarily save the situation because this will detract the schools' focus on preventing such eventualities (Facione et al., 2016).
Reasons Why Teachers Should Not Be Armed
Today's learners live in continual terror of what appears to be unavoidable. In the world, the U.S is among the highest prevalence rates of gun massacres. The public has gotten so hardened to gun violence that they are no more surprised when another one occurs. Even when students speak out against mass shootings, the only answer is for instructors to be armed. Introducing more guns into a classroom, on the other hand, will only worsen the problem. Instructors should not be equipped in classrooms because they would be unable to deal with a real-life event, and the responsibility would be too great. To illustrate, it is broadly acknowledged that an instructor's focus is a pupil's well-being. For 6 to 8 hours per day for five days a week, the pupils' career is in the teacher's eyes. Till now, nevertheless, an instructor has never been asked to arm themselves is designed to safeguard a kid. "Teachers, critically, are not self-sacrificing heroes," as the times change.
In the instance of shootings, a professor may unintentionally shoot another teacher, a pupil, or a responding cop. An instructor may drop a gun unsupervised in a classroom where a learner could get a grasp of it. Guns on campus pose a threat to students' security, a...