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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:40 PM Mar 2018

Bizarre behavior by Georgia teacher preceded gun scare

Source: Associated Press


Jeff Martin and Alina Hartounian, Associated Press
Updated 4:16 pm, Thursday, March 1, 2018

ATLANTA (AP) — When a north Georgia high school teacher was charged this week with firing a gunshot from inside a barricaded classroom and setting off a frantic lockdown and evacuation, it was not his first troubling encounter with police.

Just over a year ago, school employees and a police officer began searching Dalton High School after social studies instructor Jesse Randal Davidson went missing.

He was finally found sitting on the curb along a street a few blocks from the campus, being propped up by two school staff members, police said.

"I attempted to speak with Davidson as did staff members but no amount of stimulus would draw a response," an officer wrote in his report. Davidson was then taken to a hospital.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Gunshot-at-Georgia-school-ignites-debate-on-12718484.php

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Bizarre behavior by Georgia teacher preceded gun scare (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2018 OP
Looks like a stable guy underpants Mar 2018 #1
So mental health issues, a gun and in the classroom. Freedomofspeech Mar 2018 #2
I guess we have to arm the students to protect them from the teachers, at what age do you think? Motley13 Mar 2018 #3
Preschool Tiggeroshii Mar 2018 #7
Arm the students? keithbvadu2 Mar 2018 #9
Absolutely. Instead of raising the age to 21, the NRA will persuade Publicans to lower it to 6 Nitram Mar 2018 #12
These are the kind of teachers I remember! Mopar151 Mar 2018 #4
same here KT2000 Mar 2018 #5
Why was this guy still a teacher? Archae Mar 2018 #6
Sounds A Lot Like When Walter White Went Missing SoCalMusicLover Mar 2018 #8
I feel sorry for teachers, low pay, stress Motley13 Mar 2018 #10
Diabetic? TheSmarterDog Mar 2018 #11

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
3. I guess we have to arm the students to protect them from the teachers, at what age do you think?
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:52 PM
Mar 2018

high school?
middle school?
elementary school?

that means we are discriminating kindergartners

Nitram

(22,803 posts)
12. Absolutely. Instead of raising the age to 21, the NRA will persuade Publicans to lower it to 6
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 10:02 AM
Mar 2018

so that students can defend themselves if a teacher goes rogue. No more fistfights on the playground, just gun battles.

Mopar151

(9,983 posts)
4. These are the kind of teachers I remember!
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:00 PM
Mar 2018

And with the hooligans I went to school with, The teachers would'nt be the ones with guns for long!

KT2000

(20,581 posts)
5. same here
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:06 PM
Mar 2018

went to an inner city high school where some of the teachers who had problems were sent. This is not to say we didn't have some really good teachers, but a relative who worked in administration told me this was a normal practice. The wealthy districts got the best teachers - along with decent books, newer lab equipment, etc.

Archae

(46,330 posts)
6. Why was this guy still a teacher?
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:21 PM
Mar 2018

I saw a teacher dragged out of our school (literally!) after she had a total breakdown.

Never saw her again.

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
8. Sounds A Lot Like When Walter White Went Missing
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:32 PM
Mar 2018

Just over a year ago, school employees and a police officer began searching Dalton High School after social studies instructor Jesse Randal Davidson went missing.

He was finally found sitting on the curb along a street a few blocks from the campus, being propped up by two school staff members, police said.


Did they find him wandering around a store naked?

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
10. I feel sorry for teachers, low pay, stress
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:36 PM
Mar 2018

now the moron wants them armed, what could possibly go wrong?

The president Thursday proposed “a little bit of a bonus” for teachers who go through “rigorous” training to carry guns in the classroom, saying he hoped they would be “people with great talent at guns” such as military veterans.


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