Teachers with weapons in the classroom | In Florida, authorized …

The Florida Congress in the United States has approved a controversial bill allowing teachers to arm themselves in schools, a move advocated by President Donald Trump following the deaths of 14 students and three teachers in a school. shooting in a Parkland high school in 2018. With the approval of the bill in the lower house, which already had the Senate's approval, there remains only the sending of the project to the governor, Republican Ron DeSantis.

The educational community, which organized mbadive marches against the free use of arms, had resisted this measure. The project plans include arming teachers in schools, once they have received adequate training and pbaded a psychological badessment. According to the bill, teachers who voluntarily wish to go to school at school will have to take a hundred-hour training course as part of a special program on the use of weapons.

The goal is apparently to prevent another shootout like that of Feb. 14 last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, North Miami, when a young man armed with an AR-15 killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. Its main proponent was Republican Senator Manny Díaz, who defends the hypothesis that the murder could have been avoided or at least less bloody if the teachers had been armed.

"There is something called hiding guns, and it only works when you've trained people for it," Trump said at the time, adding that the teachers would have " a special permission, and the school would no longer be an unarmed "from which the" maniacs "can be exploited.

The Democratic Party and several civil society organizations, teacher unions and student parents oppose this controversial measure that turns teachers into law enforcement officers. For the Democratic caucus, having armed teachers poses a risk to black and Hispanic minorities, who tend to be victims of racial stereotypes and prejudices, even involuntary ones. "There are bad police and bad teachers," Democratic Republic Shevrin Jones said, citing countless cases of police violence against African Americans.