“After the Parkland shooting, the United States Supreme Court determined that it was not the responsibility of the police in such cases“, says the teacher.
The day they give me a gun, I quit.
An element that revives the debate: should teachers be given weapons? For Mireille Jones, it’s a definite no. “The day they give me a gun, I quit. I give up teaching. It’s not in my nature, it’s not in our job. We’re here to build students. I’m not not here to use a destructive trick.”
It’s almost impossible to ask a teacher to shoot someone they know
If teachers had weapons, they might have to defend themselves against their own students. “In the last shootings, the assailants are young people who were part of the school, former students who know the places and the people. It’s almost impossible to ask a teacher to shoot someone they know probably. We’ll be more likely to try to talk to them. It’s impossible. I don’t know what they’re thinking. It’s getting a bit crazy here.”