TN to allow teachers to carry guns in schools

This should be the standard across all 50 states.

Both K-12 and colleges.

There should be college credit courses that help with marksmanship too. Make it part of gen ed.

Nearly every single school in Tennessee also has a resource officer. Armed, trained Deputy.

Tennessee was smart, they used a decent amount of the "Free" covid money for this program.

Saltwater60 said:

NY is now laying off plenty of staff and teachers because they weren’t smart with that money. NY doesn’t want armed cops in schools because the students don’t like police in many large city districts. NY makes many bad choices.

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A lot of southern states were much smarter with the free covid funds than the northern and western states.

I've been seeing on twitter a lot of the news of the layoffs in the school systems in western new york.

Tgat may not be a bad thing, There is so much bloat in the schools, It's almost sickening.

I used to go to the school board meetings up there and I would bitch amount of staff in the schools. I think it's a good thing that they're laying these people off.

Snowflakes of snowflakes... What will the next generation develop?

Changing Blood is on their hands!?
Who's? Some miscreant running down the hall with a gun shooting people? They're worried about a criminal...? Wow!

Think it should be law in all 50... And then it'll boil down to local school board, parent and administrators to work out. If NYC doesn't want it ok, but why should the State decide for all counties?

Funny shit... Down here (NC), you'll read the blotter about arrests and bail, no free rides down here! Way it should be! There's crime, but in certain areas like anywhere...

Go TN!

Saltwater60 said:

But we have such good schools we need that money to stay middle of the road. Last I looked we were top 5 in spending per student and ranked 27th in the USA. We don’t teach anymore. My kids tell me a bunch of kids never go to class and cry in the counselors office all day. They require extra staff just to monitor them. Sad.

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Nah, far too much money is spent on schools. Period.

Fire teachers that do not perform. Get rid of at least half of the administrators. Such an absolute waste of funds.

End all public financing of sports at the schools. Put that money into education. If a kid wants to play sports, his family can and shoukd cover the costs.

Stop the unneeded bussing. That would save millions. Kids should be walking to school. Combine school districts, no need for all towns to have their own. That would save tens of millions of dollars.

Cooolone said:

Snowflakes of snowflakes... What will the next generation develop?

Changing Blood is on their hands!?
Who's? Some miscreant running down the hall with a gun shooting people? They're worried about a criminal...? Wow!

Think it should be law in all 50... And then it'll boil down to local school board, parent and administrators to work out. If NYC doesn't want it ok, but why should the State decide for all counties?

Funny shit... Down here (NC), you'll read the blotter about arrests and bail, no free rides down here! Way it should be! There's crime, but in certain areas like anywhere...

Go TN!

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I love reading the police blotter down here. Awesome!

I have toured the county lock ups in three counties... they run theirs much better than they do in NY.

I don't think the governor signed this yet.

This isn't enough we need to go further. Everyone should be allowed to carry in schools.

I also recall a lot of people saying gun control was coming to TN because of the covenant school shooting.

All we got a year later was no sales tax on gun safes and armed teachers.

The thing that concerns me now is what teachers are on the fbi's radar...

SomeSoldier said:

This isn't enough we need to go further. Everyone should be allowed to carry in schools.

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I need to disagree with this....

GOPerfect said:

Nah, far too much money is spent on schools. Period.

Fire teachers that do not perform. Get rid of at least half of the administrators. Such an absolute waste of funds.

End all public financing of sports at the schools. Put that money into education. If a kid wants to play sports, his family can and shoukd cover the costs.

Stop the unneeded bussing. That would save millions. Kids should be walking to school. Combine school districts, no need for all towns to have their own. That would save tens of millions of dollars.

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I agree with the underperformed teachers and administrative bloat. Teachers have to really be on the ball for 10 years to get their tenure. After that they're nearly impossible to show the door. The bureaucratic bloat at the admin level is borderline ridiculous.

Sports are just one of many extra curricular activities available in schools. Band, Chorus, theater, math and science clubs, mock UN, Debate team, school counsels... lots and lots of others clubs and stuff. These all have a certain educational value. Sports especially. It gets kids off the couch and moving, teaches hard work, team work, trials and tribulations of winning and losing. Theres more to it than just throwing or catching a ball. I know more than a few kids in the area here that play school sports only because their parents either can't afford the paid clubs, or can't get them to and from, where the schools will bus the teams to away games and back. Its a fulfilling experience for many kids.

I get behind a bus every now and then on my morning commute near my house. Its usually around 0615 to 0620, so it's High Schoolers getting picked up. It makes 4 stops in less than 1/4 mile. The red lights turn off, and the yellow come on immediately. Moves about 3 driveways, stops for a kid, and then again 2 more times. AND the kids are never at the end of the driveway. They hang out inside until they see the bus then mosey their way down the driveway.. Then it turns down a side road. Im like WTF, years ago those 4 kids would have walked the 1/8 - 1/4 mile down to the side road and all got on together. 1 stop. Done!

GOPerfect said:

I need to disagree with this....

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Reasons?

SomeSoldier said:

Reasons?

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Not sure exactly what you meant, but I do not want students armed at school. No need to have 100's or 1000's of children armed while getting an education.

GOPerfect said:

Not sure exactly what you meant, but I do not want students armed at school. No need to have 100's or 1000's of children armed while getting an education.

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Are they 18? Why should they be stripped of their rights? Maybe if we stop treating adults like children, they will stop acting like children.

SomeSoldier said:

Are they 18? Why should they be stripped of their rights? Maybe if we stop treating adults like children, they will stop acting like children.

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Not too many in school that are 18 and over. many in the inner cities.

GOPerfect said:

Not too many in school that are 18 and over. many in the inner cities.

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What about parents at a school function?

SomeSoldier said:

What about parents at a school function?

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Absolutely! I always did. Always.