Randi Weingarten Quotes

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

Teachers do not need to be armed with guns to protect their classes; they need to be armed with a solid education in order to teach their classes.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

Look at the facts, look at the circumstances if you choose to have an open mind and understand and care deeply about the safety of children in this country in schools.Schools are a weak spot. Bad guys know that they are gun-free zones, because they prey on it. So why can't we be honest about what's going on and do something to help save kids, whether it's having teachers that are trained and carry weapons, dogs in the classrooms, like canines for cops?I think it's very good.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many communities to count.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'