chances for a couple of reasons. number one, you know, she understandably came across as incredibly emotional and incredibly credible, and they feel that he does, too, that, yes, he was crying and that showed the human side of him, that he s not some some sort of monster, that he actually, you know, feels horrible about the way that this has gone down, particularly how it s made his family feel. the other side is something that is making a lot of people kind of sit back, the fact that he was yelling. he was screaming. he was fighting. he was taking no prisoners at all with the way he was talking and the language, and that was completely directed at donald trump and the republican base who want to see that kind of fight against a democratic party that they think have been railroading him. gloria, he tried to walk a line, judge kavanaugh, not
following the parkland shooting, that listening session, brandon was there. you said the president in that conversation, you told him actually that you do have, you know, checkpoints at your school. you ve got metal detectors that greet the students there. does that system, mr. thompson, i should say, you know, make you feel more comfortable and your students more comfortable? i think that the key thing for us at our school, friendship, where we have such a family feel, and so we have armed ourselves, our school has armed ourselves with school counsel counselor, school psychologist. so knowing our students within the classroom, outside the classroom, so huge thing for us was the checkpoints. when our students walk into the door, they re greeted. they re also there where we re able to have counselors and psychologists and student other student representatives to
our students get home safe, to ensure our staff members get home safe. these are just minor solutions. i will say i m against having a teacher with a gun in a building. teachers are emotional. people are emotional. i think that s a huge factor. having students, you may have to go to the staff members going through these checkpoints to ensure their mental is on point and that we are talking about they don t have any physical metal on them. in our building, our students don t even carry cell phones because we consider it s a threat. they turn in their cell phones. it s taking way from their learning. we are ensuring our kids are in the moment, to live the moment and enjoy school. they get their joy factor, their family feel, they can connect with one another and communicate and not worry about looking over their shoulder when they walk in and out of the building. they know every person who comes in the building has been through
and right after this incident happened, apparent who didn t so much agree with it at first sent me an email saying thank you because now i see exactly what s happening. we oftentimes use that tsa model. when a student comes in, we have somebody at the door to greet them to do a check in to see how they feel. we have certain point people. i know this person is not feeling so well so they won t get past .1. they go through the metal detector. their bag goes through the machine. at the end the day, just talking to my students today, they say i feel safe. you come outside. you talk about mental hospitals. our schools across the street from a shut down mental hospita hospital. once you get inside the building, we have a family feel. we have check-in points. we have it where every visitor who comes to the building has to go through checkpoints to ensure
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