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Quote:PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor offered another line of attack against the idea that schools should start arming teachers.

The idea arose in response to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, back in February and earned some consideration by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' commission on school safety.

While some have claimed that teachers shouldn't have to worry about carrying firearms, Alcindor implied that the nation's teachers contained enough racists who would shoot their minority students:

“If you start arming teachers, and you look at the statistics and say that there are black and brown students who are being disciplined more than their white counterparts, you could then start seeing statistics where potentially black students are getting shot or in accidents when their teachers are trying to shoot or trying to do gun safety measures.”

Alcindor, while appearing on MSNBC on Thursday, indicated those arguments came from organizations like the NAACP.





In March 2018, the organization published an op-ed for Time claiming that “black children will be the victims of armed teachers.”

“There's little doubt that arming teachers will lead disproportionately to the killing — by teachers — of children of color,” Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, wrote.

Ifill went on to cite statistics showing that students who are black were much more likely to be disciplined than students who are white.

“It does not take a great deal of imagination to contemplate instances in which armed teachers dealing with recalcitrant children will react out of fear and racial stereotype and discharge their weapons as they do the disciplinary code,” Ifill added.