I wanted to be a teacher.
But there wasn’t any money in it that could pay for all my other dreams.
So I decided I should give my other love a try. The world of business.
And it’s been great.
I’ve discovered myself and so many things about business operations that I feel like it’s been the right decision.
But sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to be a teacher.
The Foolishness of Youth
I graduated from high school in 2014. Then, school shootings were a thing we drilled on a couple of times a year and honestly shook our heads at.
This was the fucking Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
We take pride in many things, like gun ownership and the great outdoors.
There was no worry about gun violence in our small school.
I bet some of my fellow high schoolers had guns in their cars, ready to go hunting for deer or duck sometime after school.
There weren’t metal detectors installed at the entrances while I was there.
We rarely even had a liaison officer around.
There were profound gaps in our defense. Side doors opened during various sports practices. Kids coming and going freely. Windows that could be opened from the outside. The list goes on…
The Last Thing On Our Minds
We were kids.
Boys/girls, tests, cars, exploring/exploiting the great outdoors, sports, extracurricular activities, parties… That’s what we cared about.
To ask kids to be prepared to be shot at was only going to be taken as a joke until it happened.
Thank God it never happened at my school.
And fuck God for it happening at any school.
Oxford
A deputy knocks on the door of a barricaded classroom and tries to calm the students/teachers by using “street lingo” (bro). But instead of calming them down, the use of that word felt more like something a 15-year-old school shooter would say versus the authorities.
This video is one of the most chilling things I’ve ever watched. I could feel their hearts drop as soon as they heard the word “bro”.
They were looking for red flags.
They had to hide and barricade their fucking classroom to avoid getting shot at.
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So far, 4 kids have lost their lives and another dozen or so were injured.
Things need to change. We’ve not seen meaningful change in well over 20 years that saves kids’ lives and reduces the ability of deranged individuals from killing others en masse.
How could one of the perks of the pandemic have been saving students’ lives because we didn’t have school?
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I wanted to be a teacher. But you couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do that job now.
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4 kids are dead. They didn’t even get a chance to discover their dreams, let alone chase them. They were robbed of their life because this country failed them. This society failed them.
We failed them.
Take away all the fucking guns. Take them ALL.
Fuck you and your rights. These kids are DEAD. Their rights are gone too. Why do your rights supersede theirs?
I Need Some Time
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