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{"source_url": "https://web.archive.org", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210918110608id_/https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20200101/letter-protecting-kids-doesnt-mean-arming-teachers?rssfeed=true", "title": "Letter: Protecting kids doesn\u2019t mean arming teachers", "top_image": "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/dispatch_logo.png", "meta_img": "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/dispatch_logo.png", "images": ["https://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=9289482&cv=2.0&cj=1", "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/dispatch_logo.png"], "movies": [], "text": "I read with amazement and repulsion the Monday Dispatch article \"5 districts in one county arm teachers.\" As an educator working in schools for going on 40 years, I can speak to the utter ridiculousness of such an idea.\n\nI can almost understand the ignorance of someone never having worked in schools suggesting such an idea out of desperation, but administrators like Jeff Staggs, superintendent of Newcomerstown schools? Really?\n\nIt is a well-known and evidence-based fact that a dysregulated child (i.e., active shooter) needs a regulated adult (i.e., calm teacher). Can a gun-wielding teacher really be expected to act in a regulated way to an individual threatening to shoot students and staff members?\n\nIt seems to me that too many \"decision makers\" overlook the importance of applying the tenets of social emotional learning in all situations. When will those decision makers realize that way too much time, money and energy are spent on symptoms rather than underlying causes? The use of guns and other means of perpetrating acts of violence on the innocent are only symptomatic of troubled youth and a troubled society.\n\nProtecting our students while they are in school does not necessitate arming teachers and turning our school communities into the Old West. To my way of thinking, that's Barney Fife mentality at best.\n\nDouglas R. Cook, Powell", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": [], "publish_date": "Wed Jan 1 00:00:00 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "I read with amazement and repulsion the Monday Dispatch article \"5 districts in one county arm teachers.\" As an educator working in schools for going on 40 years, I can speak to the utter ridiculousness of such an idea.I can almost understand the ignorance of someone never having worked in schools suggesting such an idea out of desperation, but administrators like Jeff Staggs, superintendent of Newcomerstown schools? Really?It is a well-known and evidence-based fact that a dysregulated child (i.", "meta_lang": "en", "meta_favicon": "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/favicons/dispatch_favicon.ico", "meta_data": {"viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0", "og": {"site_name": "The Columbus Dispatch", "title": "Letter: Protecting kids doesn't mean arming teachers", "description": "I read with amazement and repulsion the Monday Dispatch article \"5 districts in one county arm teachers.\" As an educator working in schools for", "image": "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/dispatch_logo.png", "type": "article"}, "msvalidate.01": "7E15F9269E2CE66F2A488ABB04B5015E", "fb": {"pages": 8945512054}, "apple-itunes-app": "app-id=1072821501?at=1000lkC&ct=sb-dispatch", "google-play-app": "app-id=com.dispatch.coldispatch", "description": "I read with amazement and repulsion the Monday Dispatch article \"5 districts in one county arm teachers.\" As an educator working in schools for going on 40 years, I can speak to the utter ridiculousness of such an idea.I can almost understand the ignorance of someone never having worked in schools suggesting such an idea out of desperation, but administrators like Jeff Staggs, superintendent of Newcomerstown schools? Really?It is a well-known and evidence-based fact that a dysregulated child (i.", "bt": {"pubDate": "20200101T04:10:23Z", "modDate": "20200101T04:10:00Z", "keywords": "letter"}, "twitter": {"title": "Letter: Protecting kids doesn't mean arming teachers", "description": "I read with amazement and repulsion the Monday Dispatch article \"5 districts in one county arm teachers.\" As an educator working in schools for going on 40 years, I can speak to the utter ridiculousness of such an idea.I can almost understand the ignorance of someone never having worked in schools suggesting such an idea out of desperation, but administrators like Jeff Staggs, superintendent of Newcomerstown schools? Really?It is a well-known and evidence-based fact that a dysregulated child (i.", "card": "summary", "image": "https://www.dispatch.com/Global/images/head/nameplate/dispatch_logo.png", "site": "@DispatchAlerts"}, "vf": {"unique_id": "siteOH-pub4028-FDDD64B2-ECBA-49BC-AAC7-CBF61A45D3E2"}, "article": {"opinion": "true"}}, "canonical_link": "https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20200101/letter-protecting-kids-doesnt-mean-arming-teachers"} |
