Monday, September 17, 2007

Faculty may be armed

Since we talked about attacks on teachers last week I had to do a little research to see if there are any laws allowing teachers to practice self defense if needed.

I did not find anything on that yet-but I had to share the below links with you. It is a crazy/sick world out there! I am very glad I live in NJ!

Excerpt from link one:


"It is unlikely that many teachers would participate if the laws were changed to allow them to defend themselves and their students. Fortunately, this concept does not depend on a high participation rate for success. Simply changing the policy from "this school is a gun free zone" to "faculty may be armed" would immediately reduce the chances of a violent attack.





Excerpt from link two:


Currently, 23 states allow corporal punishment. In six states, teachers are immune from liability for hitting students. Five of those states – Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia – rank in the top 6 of those states with the most number of students hit during the 1997-1998 school year. Texas ranks #1, with 81,373 children hit that year. (Wyoming also has an immunity law).



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