all these ghosts (tumblr): I’m your kid’s teacher, and I would take a bullet for your child. But I wish you wouldn’t ask me to.

“So when adults tell me, “I have the right to own a gun“ , all I can hear is: “My right to own a gun outweighs your students’ right to be alive.“ All I can hear is: “My right to own a gun is more important than kindergarteners feeling safe at school.“ All I can hear is: “Mine. Mine. Mine.“
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We live in a country where children are acceptable casualties. Every time someone tells me about the second amendment I want to give them a history lesson. I also want to ask them: in what universe is your right to walk into a Wal-Mart to buy a gun more important than the lives of hundreds of children shot dead in their schools?

Parents send their kids to school every day with this shadow. Teachers live with the shadow. We work alongside it. We plan for it. In the event.

In the event, parents know that their children’s teachers will do everything in their power to keep them safe. We plan for it.

And when those plans don’t work, teachers die protecting their students.

We love your children. That’s why we’re here. Some of us love the subject we teach, too, and that’s important, but all of us love your kids.”

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