Stop Worrying about Guns in the Classroom
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:55 pm
by PiratePenguin
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece from an Arkansas professor echoing many of the sentiments I've seen here and elsewhere.
http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Worry ... -in/235744
Re: Stop Worrying about Guns in the Classroom
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:25 pm
by inomaha
Back when I rode my dinosaur to college classes, we would check out our guns from the residence hall director, and go out shooting at the a local city park on the edge of town. Then come home, tear them down and clean them, then check them back in. We stored them with the residence hall director because we didn't want them stolen out of our rooms; especially since we were the floor's residence assistants.
I think the school and park policies may have changed sometime after I graduated.
Re: Stop Worrying about Guns in the Classroom
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:32 pm
by DispositionMatrix
As has been said here before, campus carrry laws are a non-issue. Good to see one person in academia in Arkansas gets it.
Speaking of flawed risk assessment, suggestions that Texas faculty avoid teaching controversial topics are predicated on the notion that students are so intensely engaged with the material in their classes that they are willing to risk doing 20 to life (and not receiving a passing grade) to challenge our ideas with gunfire. I find this utterly implausible. In every other context where we talk about student engagement, it is to decry its absence. This is especially true in the humanities (and I am guessing that it’s not the accounting faculty who are being advised to keep mum about their radical ideas on valuing inventories so their students won’t fly off the handle). Most of us complain that our students won’t even read, and now we are worrying about them being so engaged that they might throw caution to the wind and start shooting?
No kidding.