what do you describe a school full of armed educators? A church picnic?(ok, maybe in some Southern Baptist chuches....)Buzz wrote:Armed camp?? You sure dramatize everything.
I want to teach kids stuff like math, reading, history, science, and the arts. I don't need to teach them your version of 'reality', because the reality is that such violent episodes are relatively quite rare....You want to teach kids? Teach them reality. Don't hide the world as it is from them.
sorry, Buzz, but no, you don't expose, if at all possible, little kids to harsh realities in that fashion. Evidence has long shown that weapons generally frighten small children, as does talk of violence. Couple that with the core mission of an elementary school: to nurture the young person into enjoying going to school and enjoying the process of learning. Frightened people don't much enjoy that fright, thus, small children in an armed elementary school will prove reluctant to embrace learning. I'm very, very certain that will be shown to be the case a few years down the line, because I'm equally certain that at least some districts will embrace the exact stupidity you argue for. Of course, for the kids involved, it will be too late, and we'll have another small bunch of undereducated, neurotic adults for society to deal with.
