Mr. Lee, soft-spoken and unflappable, raced through the school last week, handing out class lists to teachers, security guards, even a surprised custodian.
When Weingarten made the rather obvious point that arming teachers and guards in schools wouldn't exactly make schools the kind of sanctuaries that students need to learn, he disagreed.
"I conducted interviews in English and Spanish, talked to students, parents, teachers, security guards, police officers".
To remedy that problem would involve hiring more staff, more teachers, more guards, more doctors, and these things cost money.
The group has run similar simulations of school shootings in the past to determine whether armed teachers or guards could stop an active shooter.
The money dried up at the start of the last school year, and 36 of 100 staffers, including teachers, security guards and a social worker, were cut.
Look for teachers, prison guards and other state workers to receive pink slips to free up money for increased pension payments.
As US lawmakers are proposing nixing gun-free zones and arming teachers and guards with firearms to halt potential school massacres, one pro-gun group has unwittingly provided a case in point against fighting guns with more guns.
A student told the newspaper that they would be punished if they did not attend a mandatory three-hour screening of propaganda films, which other students said included one about Confucius, with teachers standing guard to stop people leaving.
The best way that teachers can guard against teacher bashing is by lending their collective power to the life-and-death battles being waged by communities across the country.
