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School Safety Tweet Storm

March 9, 2019 Written by Elizabeth Anthony


Two bills have recently been introduced to arm our public school teachers with guns.

We join most of North Carolina’s 110,000 educators in opposing arming educators.   

Join us Wednesday, March 13th from 7 PM to 8 PM for a TWEET STORM! Our elected representatives need to know how seriously we take the safety of our schools, students and teachers. Arming teachers with guns will NOT make our students safer. Our teachers need resources, not guns. Our schools need counselors, social workers, school psychologists and nurses, not armed teachers.

Be ready to join us and our partners as we rain tweets on our reps!

We’ll be using the following hashtags to send a clear message that we will oppose any bill intending to ask or require our teachers to carry guns.

  • #SchoolSafety
  • #BooksNotGuns
  • #ResourcesNotGuns
  • #ArmMeWith

Sample Tweets

Follow these sample tweets w/ the hashtags listed above.

  • @YourNCHouseRep @YourNCSenator
    Arm teachers with helping professionals to support students in crisis! #SchoolSafety #BooksNotGuns
  • @YourNCHouseRep @YourNCSenator
    Vote NO on SB192 & HB216. #SchoolSafety #ResourcesNotGuns
  • @NCHouseSpeaker @SenatorBerger
    Our teachers do NOT need guns! They need fully funded schools! #SchoolSafety #ArmMeWith
  • @NCHouseSpeaker @SenatorBerger
    Arm our schools with books and supplies, not guns! #SchoolSafety #BooksNotGuns

Make Your Own #ArmMeWith Poster

We have made two printable flyers (#ArmTeachersWith or #ArmMeWith) that you can download and use to share your own message. Take a PHOTO and SAVE it to use during the Tweet Storm. 

SIGN OUR PETITION

You can advocate for ways to reduce risks posed to our school children. Keeping guns off school property ensures a safer and more supportive learning environment for our children but we also need more helping professionals, more restorative justice programs, and other constructive ways to improve school safety.  Let’s ask for common sense, effective solutions that work. Click Here to Sign the Petition!

DETAILS

Senate Bill 192, The School Security Act of 2019, would give teachers a 5 percent raise to become sworn police officers. The teachers could carry concealed weapons in their classrooms and would have arrest powers under the proposal.

House Bill 216, The School Self-Defense Act, would make it legal for teachers and staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds “to respond to acts of violence or imminent threats of violence.”

Remember to @ your members and legislative leaders, and consider using the following tweets, or your own variations, with the proper hashtags in place. (Take care not to draft tweets longer than 130 characters so that you’ll have room for hashtags.)

See this file to find your rep’s Twitter handle.

More Information

Public Schools First NC strongly affirms that every child, every teacher, every member of a school’s staff is entitled to a safe environment at school. Learn more information on strategies that promote safe and equitable schools.

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