Mr Z was an elementary school French teacher I had for a year. Like many French teachers in peripheral Anglo-Canadian communities, he'd probably spent decades trying to teach French to kids who mocked him without mercy for his efforts. When I got him he was old, very angry, and verbally and physically abusive. Chalk-brushes, text-books, and sometimes chairs and desks impacted the bodies and heads of 10 year old children when he'd go apoplectic. Of course, this being a Catholic school, abuse of this and darker natures was ignored or covered-up.
I hate to think what might have happened if Mr Z had been armed during one of his fits.
The assumption that for the purposes of firearms possession and use teachers are universally saintly creatures, is beyond me.
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Couldn't agree more .. well said!
Wow! That certainly brought back memories of both physical and verbal abuse from so many of my teachers.
Having taught high school for a decade I must say this idea ranks up there as one of the most dangerous, idiotic, myopic and just plain STUPID ideas I've ever heard of.
Lorne .. same thing here. I am a survivor of Saskatchewan's Separate School System (Catholic). I recall Sister C being able to nail any kid right in the middle of the forehead with the stub of a piece of chalk from anywhere in the classroom .. usually for the crime of being inattentive. And that was one of the lesser things I saw at St. Michael's School.
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