Teddy G said:
One thing that Trump has done that has united most of us, at least around here, is his nomination of DeVos. NO ONE in my heavily red area is for her. Our senator Toomey has been overwhelmed with calls and emails begging him not to vote for her, but it appears the donation she made to him has swayed him to vote for her. He is the poster boy for pay for play and what really needs drained.
If the NEA is against her then I am even more for her nomination! Failing schools and failing students throughout the country in every large urban city, so let's oppose someone because of political ideology and keep the union gravy train rolling along! (Chicago Teachers Union is exhibit numero Uno here!). Education is supposed to be about teaching and letting students make up their own minds, and not indoctrination! Ah, but that's not what the comrade brothers and sisters of the unions want, now is it.
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Lol as long as the kids are safe from grizzly bears, we all win.
[/quote]You are better than this Teddy and you know what you are doing here. Sound bite snippets to further an agenda without taking into account the actual context of the question and/or the answer is a time honored tool of the progressive left. The answer she gave on it's face and used as sound bite ammunition doesn't take into account the context of the question or her answer. A Connecticut senator representing the Sandy Hook community asks whether or not she thought guns should be allowed in schools. Her answer was that it should be a local decision, and not one legislated on the Federal level. Her reference that a Wyoming schools need for, perhaps a shotgun type weapon, to protect children playing on recess from a potential grizzly bear seems ludicrous on it's face, but is it possible, and moreover does that policy exist in that rural Wyoming school and WHY?
Now would that same argument hold up for a school in Chicago? Absolutely not, and you know that. One could argue, rather successfully, that guns in Chicago schools to protect children may be needed for another reason that is not germane to a Wyoming school. Hence, local jurisdiction should take precedent.
Her answer in the context of the question coming from a senator from Connecticut, (Sandy Hook school shooting, circa 2012) is not going to resonate with someone who represents that constituency. Now ask that question in a different way, say to a parent of one of those kids slaughtered in Sandy Hook and you may get a much different response. (i.e., Mr or Mrs so and so do you think your child would have had a better chance at surviving the Sandy Hook school shooting had there been a firearm available and at the ready to an administrator or teacher of the school?). Imagine what the answer to that question may be? I know more teeth gnashing by the progs.
So the bottom line is that choice should be given at the local and state level to answer a complex question that may result in an overall homogenous policy by local and state jurisdictions, but arrived at for very different reasons, (Wyoming vs Chicago as previously stated).