Jamie_B Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 Don't you think Yaweh was a little old for her?? And talk about abusing a position of authority! :ninja: :24: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justice Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 my point is there is a greater chance of a teacher sleeping with a student than a student being shot by a teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Lucid| Posted July 13, 2013 Report Share Posted July 13, 2013 my point is there is a greater chance of a teacher sleeping with a student than a student being shot by a teacher. So what? Because one may happen the other is acceptable? You make no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/08/22/how-antoinette-tuff-showed-solution-not-more-guns-our-schools How Antoinette Tuff Showed the Solution Is Not More Guns in Our Schools s a teacher, I tend to change the channel or radio station when the news turns to issues related to schooling and education. It is difficult to listen to people discuss aspects of my daily experience as if they were a part of it. When a news story involves an act of violence in a school or a natural disaster wreaking devastation on children and school employees, I am almost less likely to listen. It is too painful to think about what that would be like for me, my colleagues, and most importantly, my students. When major news networks began playing a recording of suburban Atlanta school employee Antoinette Tuff’s 911 call reporting a shooter in her school’s building on Tuesday, I almost turned off the TV. Then, I heard Tuff’s calm voice interacting with the shooter as though as he was any distraught child in the office needing extra attention. I started to listen. What I heard was a beautiful example of one human lovingly engaging another in an act of compassion. As Tuff spoke to the 911 operator on behalf of the would-be shooter, Michael Brandon Hill, she did much more than relay messages. Instead, she talked with Hill. As he told her he did not care if he died because he had nothing to live for, she encouraged him with her own story, showing him she was really no different than him. She told Hill about working through her own “stuff,” humbling herself in a manner reminiscent of Christ’s making himself low. She explained she had a son with multiple disabilities and how just a year ago she attempted suicide after being left by her husband. After she persuaded Hill to lay down his weapons, she told him she loved him and was proud of him. The praise for Tuff’s negotiating and for the school employees who herded the children to safety will subside. The commendations will soon be contrasted by the usual ill-contrived criticisms of people dedicated to education. Critics do not realize actions like Tuff’s are ones we in education engage in every day: talking our students down from the lies the world tells them about their lack of worth and the need for revenge and leading them towards a learned, caring discourse. We do not need the media’s commendations, their criticism, or even their strange suggestions about giving teachers guns in order to better protect our students. We continue to do what we have always done with what we already have: a knowledge about instruction and an experience with children that guides us in the complicated situations we encounter on a regular basis. Antoinette Tuff was not armed. Neither, as far as we know, were any other school employees — with firearms, at least. Tuff was, however, prepared with the demeanor of someone who works in an environment with children and of a woman fully aware of her own brokenness. When anyone — from pundit to community member — suggests we need more guns in schools to protect from other guns, I hope two thoughts come into their minds. One, I hope they recognize the statistics that schools are still one of the safest place for our children to be, especially among educators and staff members who care deeply about the children’s well-being. Two, I hope they think of Antoinette Tuff and the way her heart and her words conveyed more saving power than molded metal and gunpowder every could. She stopped violence in its tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Lucid| Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 I would encourage everyone to listen to this 911 call. It's slow, and full of gaps of silence, but an amazing display of courage, compassion and level-headedness. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/08/22/antoinette_tuff_911_call_listen_to_the_full_tape_of_ga_school_clerks_call.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eva4ben-gal Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 my point is there is a greater chance of a teacher sleeping with a student than a student being shot by a teacher. Chastity belts for all!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Chastity belts for all!!! No, no. no.. The only solution is to give the kids guns to protect themselves. Then again, they might use those guns to harm random small furry animals. That's easily fixed, though. 'cept for the acorns. Won't somebody think of the acorns?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 You can't make this stuff up.... OOPS: Senator Who Advocates Arming Teachers Accidentally Shoots Teacher With Rubber Bullet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 You can't make this stuff up.... OOPS: Senator Who Advocates Arming Teachers Accidentally Shoots Teacher With Rubber Bullet One thing you can say for these needledicked WalMart Rambos, they sure are unintentionally hilarious sometimes. Of course, when this happens with a real bullet - and you know it will - it won't be as funny. Watching them prevaricate afterwards should be, though. The teacher will be at fault for not wearing full-body Kevlar. Either that or they weren't being tactical enough - need more khaki & velcro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 One thing you can say for these needledicked WalMart Rambos, they sure are unintentionally hilarious sometimes. Of course, when this happens with a real bullet - and you know it will - it won't be as funny. Watching them prevaricate afterwards should be, though. The teacher will be at fault for not wearing full-body Kevlar. Either that or they weren't being tactical enough - need more khaki & velcro. Clearly we need more good Senators to stop the bad Senators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Lucid| Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Since the Newtown shooting, schools around the country have moved to encourage or require teachers (and sometimes students) to carry firearms. Oh FFS! :facepalm: The stupidity... It BURNNSSSSS http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/14/2011711/five-pennsylvania-state-schools-now-allowing-students-to-bring-guns-on-campus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/08/22/how-antoinette-tuff-showed-solution-not-more-guns-our-schools That's great until it doesn't work out for the teacher trying to be calm and invoking Jesus and stuff and the disgruntled student shoots her in the face. I'm not advocating for guns in schools, but this is just a case of one example where it happened to work out for everyone involved and excess people didn't die. I don't think this approach will work in most instances. It's better than nothing of course, and certainly better than arming teachers...I'm just saying. I think the real solution here is better parenting from an early age, a parenting that includes a healthy respect for the realities and finality of guns, less Call Of Duty games and more interaction between parents, students and teachers. Nothing will completely solve this, but since arming teachers is stupid and guns aren't going to go away, I can't think of a better approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 That's great until it doesn't work out for the teacher trying to be calm and invoking Jesus and stuff and the disgruntled student shoots her in the face. I'm not advocating for guns in schools, but this is just a case of one example where it happened to work out for everyone involved and excess people didn't die. I don't think this approach will work in most instances. It's better than nothing of course, and certainly better than arming teachers...I'm just saying. I think the real solution here is better parenting from an early age, a parenting that includes a healthy respect for the realities and finality of guns, less Call Of Duty games and more interaction between parents, students and teachers. Nothing will completely solve this, but since arming teachers is stupid and guns aren't going to go away, I can't think of a better approach. I don't disagree, better parenting is indeed needed. This is simply an example of how the Wyatt Earp types are wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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