Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:55     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:Most teachers would not go along with this. Perhaps I'm jaded, but public school teachers who really care are few and far between. They would only do it if:

1) they continued to get paid during the strike or back pay once it's over,
2) they are guaranteed to get their jobs back after the strike.

In other words, only if it benefits them personally.


I'm an educator who has never belonged to a union. Having said that, there's something offensive about your wording of "only if it benefits them personally." In what world do you think anyone would not want to be sure they had their job to pay bills and support their family?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:54     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:Why don't teachers instead insist on having more reasonable security at their workplace, like at most other work places? Schools need better security, swipes upon entry by all, better security staff, etc., just like the rest of us already have.


So anyone who is an active student or authorized guest of an employee could still get on campus? What does that solve

Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:53     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

Never was a statement more true- thank you pp for sharing it. I’m going to move to Baltimore or Chicago, where I’ll be safe.

Again, if we continue spewing these lies, we will never ever find a solution. STOP calling gun owners murderers and recognize we all want the same thing- to protect our families. We have the same goal! We vehemently disagree how to achieve it but if we can come to this realization, we can find some solutions. I am a gun owner and an NRA member and I don’t want dead children, anywhere. Not in schools, not in churches, not in city streets.


Like what? A great majority of NRA members support background checks and a ban on bump stocks. Do you? If so, you should tell the NRA, because they oppose both.


The NRA absolutely does support background checks and we have mandatory background checks on all purchases. The NRA supports the laws on the books and they should be aggressively upheld. As for bump stocks, the NRA said that this issue should be closely looked at by ATF to see if they constitute a modification or not. If so, they should be illegal.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:50     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Why don't teachers instead insist on having more reasonable security at their workplace, like at most other work places? Schools need better security, swipes upon entry by all, better security staff, etc., just like the rest of us already have.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:49     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
+1
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:48     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
You do realize that a lot of teachers own guns?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:24     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:The kids are planning their own walkout on the anniversary of Columbine. The Women's March needs to give this event over to them.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-national-high-school-walk-out-for-anti-gun-violence



+10000

The message is 10000x more powerful coming from the kids.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:17     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Columbine, Hitler’s birthday, pot day ...

You know the Columbine thing was on that date because of Hitler, right?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:14     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:Most teachers would not go along with this. Perhaps I'm jaded, but public school teachers who really care are few and far between. They would only do it if:

1) they continued to get paid during the strike or back pay once it's over,
2) they are guaranteed to get their jobs back after the strike.

In other words, only if it benefits them personally.


Wouldn’t those two items apply to anyone and not just teachers? I wouldn’t want to do that (not show up for work for some social cause) either if I would lose my job or even weeks of pay. I don’t think that’s selfish.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:14     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The kids are planning their own walkout on the anniversary of Columbine. The Women's March needs to give this event over to them.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-national-high-school-walk-out-for-anti-gun-violence


No chance that the kids are doing it because of Marijuana Day? Okay then.


It's the 19th anniversary of Columbine. There is a singular reason for that date. Sure and I hope they spark it up on their day off. Who cares. At least they won't be slaughtered in school that day.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:11     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:Why is the responsibility and onus for something like this on teachers? They're OUR children Isn't it enough that we expect teachers to magically turn neglected children into geniuses? Now we expect them to magically fix political problems too?


Ahem, no one is expecting this. Sounds like something a few blowhard teacher's union types are advocating.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:08     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Why is the responsibility and onus for something like this on teachers? They're OUR children Isn't it enough that we expect teachers to magically turn neglected children into geniuses? Now we expect them to magically fix political problems too?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:07     Subject: Re:If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Most teachers would not go along with this. Perhaps I'm jaded, but public school teachers who really care are few and far between. They would only do it if:

1) they continued to get paid during the strike or back pay once it's over,
2) they are guaranteed to get their jobs back after the strike.

In other words, only if it benefits them personally.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 12:00     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
Anonymous wrote:The kids are planning their own walkout on the anniversary of Columbine. The Women's March needs to give this event over to them.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-national-high-school-walk-out-for-anti-gun-violence


No chance that the kids are doing it because of Marijuana Day? Okay then.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2018 11:48     Subject: If teachers strike nationally, could they bring the NRA to its knees?
The kids are planning their own walkout on the anniversary of Columbine. The Women's March needs to give this event over to them.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-national-high-school-walk-out-for-anti-gun-violence