So finally, some teachers got some good press. But they had to die to get it.

[1monster]

It's not the first time that teachers have died defending their students and finally got some good press.

Somehow, it just doesn't seem right.

Especially since the only difference between those teachers in the schools marked on the map below and other teachers in the country is that they have faced the gun and showed the world what teachers are made of. My guess is that just about every person, teaching and non-teaching staff, who work in the schools would do whatever they could to protect the students, including the ultimate sacrifice.

It's time to give teachers the respect they deserve instead of the press and politicians constantly undermining them for political and monetary gain.

Check out map here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map

It won't print on DU as a whole, only in sections.

[SharonAnn]

1. Thank you. I have pointd this out to friends and family. Teachers protect children!

These are the people we have been demonizing? These are the people whose pay and protections we want to cut?

Don't we want our children cared for and protected by the best, most loving, fiercest protectors?

[reteachinwi]

2. Teachers protect children

from much more than gunmen.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Especially the Sandy Hook teachers who protected their children.

It's one thing to stand in loco parentis (as a legal substitute for a parent), and it's another to go beyond what was in your union contract and job description. The women who died protecting these children are saints. They did what was necessary at their own expense.

[1monster]

3. Protest sign of the day (from CREDO's Emergency March on the NRA earlier today in Washington DC)

[msongs]

4. yes but if we privatize schools teachers get the right to die...for less, a big savings nt

[Fumesucker]

5. The only good teacher is a dead teacher?

Yes, it's