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Teachers Resist Arming Themselves

Georgia school leaders are turning down a new option to arm teachers, arguing that it doesn’t make kids any safer and creates more problems than state lawmakers intended to solve. A string of attacks at schools and colleges in California, Oregon and Washington state hasn’t swayed education officials who say bluntly that they don’t believe guns belong in schools. “We could give (teachers) all the training in the world as to how to a shoot a gun, but knowing when to shoot poses a major problem,” said Steve Smith, superintendent of the Bibb County School District. “The folks we work with day in and day out don’t have that”/ Associated Press . More here.

Question: Do you think Idaho legislators will bring back this goofy idea again?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog