Rantz: Teachers should focus on teaching, not CPR training or fire drills

I don’t often get outraged, though I have to say when I realized that teachers and staff were spending time learning CPR or practicing fire and earthquake drills to protect the lives of students, I was pretty floored. How dare we ask teachers to do anything other than teach! It’s time we dropped this onerous training, arm these teachers with better books and computers, and have them focused exclusively on teaching!

Is President Trump brave enough to take on the NRA?

I don’t often get inspired by the Left’s faux-outrage on the idea of arming teachers who request the training and volunteer to add extra security if it’s ever needed. But this time their message got to me and we should expand upon the logic.

President Donald Trump floated an old idea of arming teachers who volunteer to go through extensive training so that we can add one extra layer of security to schools. I know he’s only recommending we arm volunteers who meet an exhaustive list of qualifications, but, I’m going to join the Left in pretending he wants to arm every single teacher and staff member, because it makes it easier for me to successfully argue against the idea. Arm teachers with books — and salary increases — not guns!

Progressive hero John Oliver proclaimed: “There are clearly multiple issues with the idea of arming teachers, from the fact that it is not their job ….” He’s right! It’s not their job, which is why I hope you’ll join me in calling out the staffers who have helped tell students what to do in the event of a school fire.

We expect teachers to teach students to form a single file line and exit a burning school calmly? Hogwash. Let’s leave those lessons to the fire department when they arrive at the burning school; they can wait in the classroom a few minutes while firefighters get to them. It’s not the job of a teacher to protect students, even if they volunteer their time!

Ya know, we need to start listening to the voices that support one side. I’m done with this whole “dialogue” and “conversation” thing. First Daughter Ivanka Trump wants to have the conversation but I say to hell with conversations. What good are they when we talk to people who disagree with what one side wants? They just get in the way of total control of policies. One side obviously knows better. We should just listen to them, even if they don’t have any results to back-up their positions.

“I’ve listened to the first grade teachers that don’t want to be pistol-packing first grade teachers …” a nervous Governor Jay Inslee told President Trump. “We need to listen and educators should educate … I just suggest we need a little less tweeting here and a little more listening.”

Of course, Inslee means “listen to educators who hold positions I hold,” because, ya know, some school staff in Washington do, in fact, carry weapons to protect their students — a fact Inslee doesn’t seem to realize. It’s happening right now in Toppenish, the school and community support the idea, but we shouldn’t listen to them.

What do they know? They hold a position different than I do! So screw them.

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