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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Smoking gun: FL can’t insure armed teachers from liability | The Edvocate Blog

Smoking gun: FL can’t insure armed teachers from liability | The Edvocate Blog

Smoking gun: FL can’t insure armed teachers from liability


With SB 7030/Arming Teachers passing in the Florida Senate as was predicted, the question raised by this blog about whether or not this is insurable remains.
SAD EMOJIDid knowledgeable political insiders deliberately plunge an entire state into a horrific Sophie’s Choice debate over forcing public school classroom teachers to live every day knowing that they or their colleagues must pivot from teaching the students they love to possibly shooting one of them?
Was this just a cruel distraction to allow the greatest threat to Florida Public Education, universal vouchers/Education Savings Accounts and a slew of other deeply hostile bills to pass into law with considerably less opposition from exhausted public education advocates?
Not to put to fine a point on it, but here’s the smoking gun as to whether arming classroom teachers can be insured. Fellow blogger Mercedes Schneider addresses the question and points out that:
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) uses AIX Specialty Insurance Company to provide its educators professional liability policy. According to that policy, armed  CONTINUE READING: Smoking gun: FL can’t insure armed teachers from liability | The Edvocate Blog