Who Would Want to Teach in a Room of Armed Students? Texas Is About to Find Out

you REALLY can't fucking make this up

By PSYCH! Go To Post
you REALLY can't fucking make this up

It's so ridiculous. Half the point of academia is to talk about and confront topics that people traditionally struggle to cope with to expand your awareness and education on them in a reasoned academic way.

This just seems so baffling.

i dont even

how are you not aware of the problems guns create when this is your rules for teachers?

Can't wait for the new version of the "Marine student punched liberal atheist teacher" chain letter.

i would but i'm not american

move here, gringo friends, all drugs are legal

Thanks Obama

By giririsss Go To PostIt's so ridiculous. Half the point of academia is to talk about and confront topics that people traditionally struggle to cope with to expand your awareness and education on them in a reasoned academic way.

This just seems so baffling.

They were already whitewashing controversial history so whatever.

Dem Prop voted on yesterday going for a Opt-Out for the schools only think it's for Harris County tho

18 year olds really aren't that much different from kids. Some never gain judgement skills and common sense past those of a 10 year old. I'm sometimes amazed at the shit I have to put up with. I can't imagine having to handle those parameters, emotions can run high in a classroom.

I have a former classmate that now teaches in Kansas, and she's facing the same problem. There's a group trying to get guns off of campus, but no success so far.

They're literally trying to create safe spaces where people can continue to be stupid and kill each other on a whim. How is this real life?

I mean, I have an issue with "safe spaces" in the first place. In the SJW sense.

But the concealed carry shit is otherworldly as it's literally in the classroom. Ruining the educational experience for EVERYONE.

By giririsss Go To PostI mean, I have an issue with "safe spaces" in the first place. In the SJW sense.

Explain.

no joke if i was teaching in a room full of guns id probably be afraid to do anything

By Jay Whatever Go To PostExplain.

Its ridiculous.

I heard 'safe space' unironically at work last month. We took the day off to finish laughing.

Could be a fun experience I guess.

By Jay Whatever Go To PostExplain.

It's a bankrupt idea to my mind.

The theory is that the rest of the campus is so toxic that you need to retreat. You need to hide. That you're not really comfortable/safe anywhere else.

But that's just segregation. It's not treating the problem, it's not helping anyone, and it's just running away, and it's not making the campus / school a better place.

The whole campus should be a safe place. If someone doesn't feel safe they need to be able to say why. And if there's a problem there, it needs to be addressed. Are there people being racist douche bags? bring them up on the disciplinary committee and kick them out of the university. And any other form of discrimination.

They have the potential facilitate discrimination. If you can go to your class then run back to your safe space, there's every chance you won't complain about some racist bullshit a class mate went on about because you've retreated and you're safe now. You don't have to deal with it again for 7 days. It could also do the opposite, you're safe now so you feel comfortable reporting it, but most people would rather avoid conflict if they can.

It also builds a complex in your mentality to the campus / school. That the only place you can be safe, is in that space. But not everyone in your group will be accepted into that space or allowed in. You're not going to have all your classes in that space. Your lecturers aren't giving the lecture in that room. And you're meant to attend them feeling scared? That's not good for your learning experience or anyone else's that has to do group work with you.

It bestows a false sense of self importance. You're not really a special flower that the whole world needs to cater too. That's not to say you should ever be discriminated against, this is genuinely said with out the intent that discrimination is ever ok. But it does mean that you have to adapt to your surroundings. Some of these safe place requests sound like they're made by people who are being overly self indulgent in their own importance and refusing to adapt to their new social surrounds. Again, retreating/hiding/running away from some self examination and addressing yourself and growing.

You need to respect the individual, but the individual needs to respect the society.

I get why people have requested these safe spaces. I have absolutely no doubt that there is discrimination that people are dealing with that needs to be extinguished. I just don't see how segregation is the answer. It feels like regression not progression. There's the basis of this that the ability to report discrimination needs to be an easy process and available. And dealt with. But if the institution isn't dealing with complaints about discrimination you're going to need a lot more than a safe space.

Safe spaces have existed for a long time now, people recently started freaking out when they learned of their existence and know what the terminology means now. I guess if you use "support group" people are less likely to be pissy about it or something.

By 33MillionDollarMen Go To PostSafe spaces have existed for a long time now, people recently started freaking out when they learned of their existence and know what the terminology means now. I guess if you use "support group" people are less likely to be pissy about it or something.

Support groups aren't permanent, they're a temporary meeting that breaks up once the meeting is over.

And I know there have been "safe spaces" for a long time. My old university had a space for LGBT students. And it makes sense.. For a lot of them this is the first time they will ever have been able to publicly express their sexuality. And it can be daunting, and for the most part it was about helping each other through this. You also could enter even if you weren't LGBT.

I also don't have a problem in the slightest with student associations. I know most universities will have a dozen or more nationality driven ones (Japanese, Chinese, Thai, German, African were the ones I knew of at my old campus). I can certainly see the appeal in hanging out with students that you can easily relate too, and makes it easier to meet new people in a foreign country. But these are just groups that meet anywhere.

But there's something about demanding permanent spaces for race or sex that feel like regression. And raise the question of which races are deserving? Is there a certain number they have to hit?

For Race / sex it isn't something new that you're dealing with. You're not just now discovering you're Nigerian. It's not something new that you're having to cop with. You're not now just discovering you're a female or male (and if you are you need a lot more help).