A true story.
Reading about the suggestions that teachers be armed in case of an active shooter incident made me remember a story told to me by a co-worker many years ago. I do not know if he was the subject, but I do know that he moved from the state in question, and I suspect that before computing, he may have had a teaching job.
He talked about a maths teacher in a north mid-western state. The teacher would stand in front of the chalkboard, day after day, ‘teaching’ children who really were not terribly interested in math. As much as he would try to make math interesting to the students, their real interest was in talking to each other whenever he was facing the board.
His frustration with students grew over the years, and finally, he'd had enough.
One day he came into the classroom as usual, all the students said “Good morning Mr. Whatever” and he began his lesson. He turned to the board and began to write a formula, and behind him the students started to chatter away, not even really trying to be quiet about it. So according to the story told to me, the teacher put down the chalk, walked to the corner of the room by the door, pulled a .38 from his belt, and fired two blanks into the trash can.
He then calmly put the gun back in his pocket, walked back the chalkboard, and continued to write the formula for a now silent class.
Apparently, that was the end of a teaching career.
And we really want to give teachers guns?
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