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Florida shooting: 'I'm not a police officer' says teacher
A teacher who hid her pupils in a cupboard during the shooting at a school in Florida has said a suggestion by the US President to arm some teachers could go 鈥榯erribly wrong鈥.
Melissa Falkowski teaches at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 people were killed last week.
She told 5 live鈥檚 Sarah Brett:
鈥淚 went to school to teach kids鈥 didn鈥檛 go to school to become a police officer and to carry a gun in my classroom.鈥
This clip is originally from Afternoon Edition on Thursday 22 February 2018.
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