Friday, 9 March 2018

Viewing the "Letters" columns. Arm staff to end school shootings? Not such a good idea!


Following the latest dreadful school shooting in the USA President Trump proposed arming teachers.  These two letters published in The Week on March 3rd suggest that might not be such a good idea.

To The Guardian
The maths teacher at my boarding school (circa 1959) lost her temper two or three times per lesson.  She would fling chalk, or worse, the wooden board rubber at a pupil so hard that her body would swing sideways – she was quite out of control.  How would we have fared had she possessed an assault rifle?

Priscilla James, Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk


To The Guardian
Give teachers guns?  Most of us struggle with staplers.

Dorothy Granville, Middlesbrough

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