Argumentative Essay On Guns In Schools
Discuss a current issue in education, why you think it is important and your stance on it.
There are numerous educational issues teachers, school administrators, parents, and students face each and every day ranging from acceptable dress codes to Common Core standards to teacher assessments to effective sex education, but none as life threatening as the issue of gun control. Many schools across the nation have been the unfortunate victims of violent crimes. In 1999, 12 students and one teacher were fatally shot at Columbine High School in Colorado. In 2007, 32 college students were shot and killed at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. In 2012, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, 20 children and six staff members were killed. This is but a brief overview of a long list of school shootings. As a result of these tragedies, the long debated controversy over whether teachers and principles should be armed has begun to grow ever more heated. With increasing support on both sides, many argue that teachers have the right to protect …show more content…
The prospect of armed teachers has given rise to a number of issues. First, it creates a double standard. As students we are not allowed to play with nerf guns or water pistols, even making a gun with our fingers is unacceptable, yet our teachers would be allowed to carry guns. How does that not create confusion? Furthermore, kids are curious and clever. The intrigue of a weapon in the classroom would be too much for some students. How long before the gun ended up in the hands of a child? Ken Trump, a consultant with National School Safety and Security Services, commented, “the vast majority of teachers want to be armed with textbooks and computers…to teach in the classroom – not guns. They don’t want that responsibility, that liability, and that’s not their professional
There are numerous educational issues teachers, school administrators, parents, and students face each and every day ranging from acceptable dress codes to Common Core standards to teacher assessments to effective sex education, but none as life threatening as the issue of gun control. Many schools across the nation have been the unfortunate victims of violent crimes. In 1999, 12 students and one teacher were fatally shot at Columbine High School in Colorado. In 2007, 32 college students were shot and killed at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. In 2012, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, 20 children and six staff members were killed. This is but a brief overview of a long list of school shootings. As a result of these tragedies, the long debated controversy over whether teachers and principles should be armed has begun to grow ever more heated. With increasing support on both sides, many argue that teachers have the right to protect …show more content…
The prospect of armed teachers has given rise to a number of issues. First, it creates a double standard. As students we are not allowed to play with nerf guns or water pistols, even making a gun with our fingers is unacceptable, yet our teachers would be allowed to carry guns. How does that not create confusion? Furthermore, kids are curious and clever. The intrigue of a weapon in the classroom would be too much for some students. How long before the gun ended up in the hands of a child? Ken Trump, a consultant with National School Safety and Security Services, commented, “the vast majority of teachers want to be armed with textbooks and computers…to teach in the classroom – not guns. They don’t want that responsibility, that liability, and that’s not their professional