LogFAQs > #965407458

As a teacher, one time about 7 years ago, we had an active alert at my school. A man had broken through the office and past security. I had another teacher watch my class and ran towards the office to intercept. I didn't think about armor, I didn't carefully approach behind buildings, I ran towards the threat as fast as I could to protect the kids. I didn't have a gun, a knife, or anything except my body to put between myself and whoever had broken into the school.

It was just an angry father (who had a bunch of issues and wasn't supposed to see his kid), but I didn't know it at the time. All the teachers were ready to protect their kids. The fact that police with body armor, guns, training etc wouldn't even approach carefully is insane. They should feel the way we did about our students for EVERYONE. That is why you should become a police officer. If your not willing to put your life at risk to save civilians, don't become a cop.