This is almost unbelievable . Military State anyone? Look, this is not going to work. DeSantis hopes to achieve two things with this one bird brain idea. #1. I know a little something about vets and this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Ron thinks arming teachers….especially veterans is a safe and good idea. Not so. I know too many veterans with issues. Waaay too many. Put a gun in their hand and he thinks it protects kids. It doesn’t. Ron DeSantis has obviously never sat in on a therapy session when a vet was provoked and had a flashback. How is this abusing veterans? Never put a veteran whose job was to kill or be killed in a situation to return to killing fields in their minds if only for a few seconds. NEVER… Like I said, I know a thing or two about vets.
Now, his second idea regarding this bird brain idea to covert our educational system to a military state. Most veterans do have issues and many suffer from PTSD. Should a vet with issues lose his bearing for a bit, he could not bear the guilt that might suffer the children.
This is nuts...Just nuts. I think it could actually borderline on child endangerment. It is also Veteran abuse. Just because someone was in the military does not make them qualified to teach anything but how to survive. FEAR...and GUILT. I think his answer to school safety and teacher shortage is put a combat vet who knows how to handle a weapon in the classroom to teach. That is ridiculous beyond words. Arming teachers is a terrible idea in itself. Arming veterans to teach is beyond a horrible idea. What about all the years and money certified teachers spent grooming their careers, Teaching is a calling and not for the faint of heart or easily provoked. This is not leadership. This is insanity. Not all veterans have extreme issues but so many do.
The Sunshine State currently has 9,000 teacher vacancies that must be filled before the summer comes to a close and the new 2022 academic year begins. Last week, Florida’s Department of Education announced that military veterans can now fill those empty roles.
“Our public schools are really at a crisis level seeing this massive number of vacancies,” Andrew Spar, Florida Education Association president, told ABC Action News. “In 2010, there were 8,000 graduates from Florida’s colleges and universities becoming teachers. That number was between 2,000 and 3,000 for the year that just ended. That’s a significant drop-off.”
Veterans will now have the opportunity to use a five-year voucher that allows them to teach in classrooms without the necessary education requirements or typical accreditation that other certified teachers must possess.
This is what I envision