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It appears the GOP has a low opinion of lecturers. We hear them principally calling lecturers communist and socialist, accusing them of turning kids LBGTQ or anti-racist.
But the GOP, apparently so determined to keep away from actual gun security legal guidelines primarily based upon information and analysis, need the identical lecturers that they are saying are the basis of all evil to hold weapons of their classroom.
That is the parable of the great man with a gun. But skilled good guys, armed guards and armed cops, have confirmed themselves inadequate at defending our kids.
It appears colleges are to be become prisons with partitions and barbed wire, recess shall be held in a concrete yard. Youngsters are to be denied a standard childhood as a result of roughly 30 % of individuals shall be indignant if military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines are restricted in any manner.
As an alternative, the GOP ought to hearken to lecturers once they demand on-site pupil psychological well being providers, smaller courses, extra help for college students with particular wants — significantly college students who’ve suffered a lot ache and loss attributable to the opioid epidemic, COVID-19, and gun violence.
Likelihood is if we stay lengthy sufficient, each American has a member of the family or buddy who died by gun.
Donna Twombly
Bangor
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