“Don’t dare call me a racist,' said a black Democrat, Shevrin Jones, after Republicans objected to an amendment that would have required teachers to submit to implicit bias training.
Wendy Behrend, a school crossing guard who was on duty when a shooter opened fire in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, pays her respects at a memorial for those killed, on the first anniversary of the shooting, on Feb. 14 in Parkland, Fla. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K.
Last year’s legislative package put guns in the hands of certain school employees, but not teachers. The new legislation would undo that exception, based on the determination by a commission investigating the February 2018 massacre that some of the bloodshed could have been prevented if more staff inside the building had been armed.
“We see accidents happening every day,” said Democratic state Rep. Susan Valdes, a former school board member from Tampa. “I must stand with the children who have asked me, ‘Don’t put more guns in our schools.’” Jones had harsher words for his colleagues. When he rose to conclude debate on the amendment, he was seething with anger. At first, all he could do was murmur, “Wow. Wow.”“I asked for implicit bias training because we’re talking about black boys and girls who are getting murdered by police officers,” he said. “There are bad police officers and there are bad teachers. I never called them racist, but I’m giving you reality.
When the vote was tallied, Jones was not present in the chamber. He had been rushed to the hospital Wednesday morning, later released with a diagnosis of vertigo.
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