‘Teachers Are Educators, Not Security Guards’: Educators Respond to Trump Proposal<br />And there were concerns about what that would do to the relationship between teacher and student.”<br />Mr. Shutt said he was deeply opposed to Mr. Trump’s proposal — in particular the idea<br />that federal funds should be used to train teachers in how to use a gun, when educators, Mr. Shutt said, had so many other needs.<br />So on Thursday, when President Trump proposed arming teachers to curb violence, Mr. Shutt posed a question<br />to his students: What do you think of the idea of training teachers to have guns in schools?<br />“To be effective, schools must be perceived as safe havens.”<br />Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers and a teacher of 33 years, said<br />that he could not conceive how such a measure would have prevented the Sandy Hook massacre.<br />“The mere thought that teachers should be armed in order to ward off violence is utterly illogical<br />and will only result in making our students and teachers less safe,” said Tommy Chang, the superintendent of Boston Public Schools, in a statement.<br />Why would a teacher ever have a gun in school?’” Mr. Shutt recalled.<br />Even in gun-friendly locales like rural Indiana, teachers reacted with alarm to Mr. Trump’s plan,<br />which came a little more than a week after a gunman killed 17 at a high school in Florida.
