Bodyguards and Assassins
By Carl
R. ToersBijns
Friday, December 14, 2012 will never be forgotten by any of us nor will the
name of the Sandy Hook Elementary School be erased from our memories forever. Without echoing what has already been said in
this most horrific event where twenty young children were murdered by a lone
gunman inside a sanctuary of a school, we learned an important lesson in life
about bodyguards and assassins.
Emulating the behaviors of those heroic teachers that stood their ground and
defended their classroom and their children the best they could being unarmed
and facing a heavily armed assassin they all performed their roles of
bodyguards of our precious little angels admirably and in a heroic fashion that
will ever withstand the test of time and history.
The group dynamics of those that sacrificed their lives protecting their
students and innocents from the assassin needs to be put into perspective in
another form to recognize the value of a teacher in our schools today. This assassin came into the school in a
kamikaze fashion and mission to kill people and was successful to do this
unequivocally and without any doubt, difficulties as he was well armed and
prepared to used deadly force on anything or anyone in his way.
The school was hardly a fortress designed to protect kids and teachers from
grave harm or dangers. It has been revealed that a compelling drama took place
that illustrated and made a most valid point that teachers are unrecognized as
protectors and bodyguards of our children and while under their care, they are
willing to sacrifice their lives for the safety and well being of their
children in their charge.
Assassins on the other hand have no such code to act in an most honorable
manner and leave only destruction, pain and sorrow behind as they inflict the
most pain humanly possible with their lethal ballistic armaments that are
designed to kill and take human life with no regard to the humanity or dignity
of the innocents now deceased and gone to heaven.
My point is to demonstrate the value of teachers as counselors, mentors,
role models and protectors. They serve as our children’s bodyguards while they
sit there in a most vulnerable setting having to take care of their charge
without any help from the outside or law enforcement. Here is the irony:
- Assassins are
people who destroy human lives.
- We already know
that prisons are filled with assassins.
- We care more
about the assassins that the bodyguards.
- We spent more
money on prisons than we do schools and teacher’s pay even when we realize
that these human resources are critical in their role to protect our
children when they are away from us.
Stop spending money on prisons and start allocating more money for schools
and teachers pay. The right thing to do is to recognize, respect and award
these teachers for what they are within our social structure and provide them
the same urgency and consideration as law enforcement and correctional staff
that work in potentially dangerous places but are prepared to take the risks as
part of their public duty to serve and protect our children.
Now that we know and fully realize the complete value of our teachers
around our children we must set aside our political will to expand prisons and
deny them the growth they are asking and instead focus and bring our schools
back to adequate standards to give our children a bright future under the
stewardship of loyal and devoted teachers who act as bodyguards for our kids
when we cannot.
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