Are public school teachers in more danger today than a year ago?

I don't think teachers are in significantly more danger. I don't have the statistics in front of me, but I would bet that fewer than 10 teachers are killed each year in school shootings. There are well over two million classroom teachers in the United States. That means the odds of any teacher being killed are less than 1 in 200,000.

There are roughly 15,000 murders a year in the US, out of a population of around 300,000,000. That means your chances of being murdered in any given year are roughly 1 in 20,000.

So teachers at school are roughly ten times safer than the average for the general population.

That said, I don't have anything against putting a cop in every school. I am even willing to pay taxes to support it. But Republicans aren't.

Public schools do NOT need to pay for armed security guards. One school shooting, among the millions of kids going to school every day does not mean that others are at risk. These are very random, rare events. The real risk to students is every time they get in a car. The biggest cause of death for school age kids is car accidents. If you really want to make kids safer, lobby for safer cars.

No. We will be much more in an atmosphere of fear and guns. Yuck.