Trump’s Gun Guidance a Case Study for South African Teachers
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A South African teachers’ union is taking a page from U.S. President Donald Trump’s textbook for dealing with violence at schools -- arm the educators.
A teacher was gunned down at an elementary school in the coastal KwaZulu-Natal province on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of shootings and stabbings across the country. This prompted the Educators Union of South Africa’s General Secretary, Siphiwe Mpungose, to demand that teachers be trained to use guns and be allowed to carry them in the classroom.