The rampage of violence in schools and many other public places has changed the game plan for those who must prepare for new seasons.

Consider the issues facing educators in, say, Uvalde, Texas, which is still grieving over the massacre of 19 fourth-graders and two teachers.

Not only must they prepare for curriculum requirements and ensuring that teachers have plenty of stationery, books and online equipment to teach, they now must ensure their classrooms are secure against any possible burst of rage.

This is life in contemporary America, ladies and gentlemen. It saddens me to my core and sickens me terribly.

But .. we must stand guard these days against domestic terror just as we were shaken and angered by the events of 9/11. The international war on terror is still raging, even though it has been pushed off the front pages of newspapers and off the evening newscasts in cities and towns across the land.

9/11 taught us a terrible lesson, which is that the mightiest country on Earth is vulnerable to acts of insane violence.

We have stopped countless attempts since that terrible day. We need to commit to stopping future attempts similar to what we have seen occur in Uvalde, Buffalo, El Paso, Sutherland Springs, Newtown, Las Vegas, Parkland, Littleton, Aurora … and on it goes.

I speak to local educators in North Texas and they tell me the same thing, that they are getting ready for the next school year with both eyes and ears dialed in to the need for greater classroom security.

I do hate saying this, but they must never let their vigilance down. Not for one second.

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Let’s try to connect a couple of dots, shall we?

We have heard from a special panel — two Texas legislators and a retired state Supreme Court justice — looking into the Uvalde shooting in late May. We know that nearly 400 police officers responded to the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. The cops were from the U.S. Border Patrol, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde school district police department.

Also, we have learned of a “systemic failure” in that response. No one knew who was in charge. Still, heavily armed cops were on hand. No one seemed willing to storm the classroom and take out the shooter.

Let’s stipulate that these officers are trained for this kind of emergency. Still, they stood around and looked at each other while the shooter slaughtered his victims.

And yet …

There are those who believe teachers with rudimentary training in firearms can pull a gun out of a desk drawer and shoot a madman with minimal risk of hitting more victims. Do we also believe that teachers are immune from panic, that they could freeze out of fright?

I must be slow on the uptake. There is nothing sensible about arming teachers, some of whom might be in their first teaching job and asking them to do something that trained police officers — in the Uvalde case — were unable to do in time to stop the deaths of so many innocent victims.

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The video of the police freezing in place while a gunman slaughtered fourth-graders and two teachers in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school classroom has me thinking about one thing.

It’s the notion proposed by Republican politicians that we need to arm teachers, allow them to carry handguns into the classroom so they can take out shooters who did what the lunatic did in Uvalde.

My mind and my memory also are drawn to a comment that a North Texas educator told me just recently. He said teachers’ sign on to educate children. They do not become educators to pack firearms into school.

This educator told me in no way would he allow teachers to carry guns to work. What he didn’t say is what he would do if the local school board voted to authorize the arming of teachers. I think I know what he would do. He would resign.

Republican pols are wrong to suggest that teachers with guns is the correct response to this kind of carnage we have witnessed in Uvalde, or Newtown, Conn., or Littleton, Colo.

Meanwhile, our rage mounts as the video of the cops’ non-response to the Uvalde shooter burns ever more deeply into our soul.

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

What in the name of competent law enforcement is happening over yonder in Uvalde, Texas?

Police officers responding to a mass slaughter of children and teachers reportedly had a shot at the gunman, but couldn’t get an OK from the top of the chain of command to take the shot … or so it is being reported.

Then we hear from the Uvalde mayor, who is disputing that contention.

Meanwhile, the chief of the Uvalde school district police department, Pete Arredondo, remains on administrative leave and he isn’t shedding even the slightest glimmer of light on the matter. All we have heard from him is that he didn’t know he was in charge of the operation.

Good, ever-lovin’ grief, man!

Report: Uvalde officer asked permission to shoot gunman but got no answer | The Texas Tribune

Nineteen precious children and two heroic teachers were slain by the lunatic who walked into Robb Elementary School and opened fire with an AR-15.

This non-response/cover-up is a classic cluster fu** of the worst magnitude most of us ever have seen.

When are we going to get some answers? More importantly, when are the loved ones of the victims going to get the explanation of what went wrong that they are demanding?

johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com