If you are adopting a child in MA, you have had to get fingerprints already (along with CORI and SORI and a million other things!). This would not be something new.

Yes, absolutely. What be concerned if someone has nothing to hide. We need to keep our children as safe as possible...Ann

When you adopt in MA, you are legally required to submit fingerprints, have CORI and background check. This has been in place for years.

I thought they already did...

I'm surprised that teachers aren't fingerprinted. When I taught in New Mexico, I was fingerprinted and had a background check run

Teachers have a CORI done, but not finger-printing.

Taking a fingerprint has nothing to do with a mad man shooting through a door to get inside and do harm. Spend the time and money educating kindness in children who have nowhere else to learn it, and address mental health and gun control issues.

Absolutely should be fingerprinted!

If you got nothing to hide it shouldn't be anything more than a quick dab of the finger! If they want to start fingerprinting everybody to make a safer community and enviornment for children then so be it! A small inconvenice is most certaintly worth helping to better the future for everybody, especially children. A lot of people sure are coming out with the old redneck style "this is AMerICUHHH I donT Haf ta Do THAT its a FrEE countray!!!!!' just shut up you are old fashioned and nobody cares step in line and help make this a better place rather than protecting your "rights" that nobody cares about

This won't do anything. All teachers already need to have a background check (CORI). Sure, fingerprint them...it won't do anything! It is just the government trying to promote a false sense of security. This facade is all about playing political games and getting votes...not the safety of your children. Politcal grandstanding at its finest...

If you disagree with this, please do not just attack my opinion, but instead try to convince me that this will actually make our schools safer. All of those creepy pervert teachers had clean records, so what would this have done? When is the last time a teacher "went postal" at a school and harmed any children? Please, enlighten me as to how this will do ANYTHING to protect the children.

What are the guide lines for disqualification or termination of employment? Should a talented, young educator be turned away from our schools because he/she was arrested for possession of marijuana in collage?

More rules and government intervention for the law abiding citizen, while the criminals already in jail are set free ? I don't get it ? The Criminals, mentally impaired and those with psychological issues have already been put into society without any governmental supervision. The government has no money folks, so why penalize the law abiding citizens who are obeying the law. This kid in Newtown stole guns from his mother. Just as if your Dad was a police officer and you grabbed a gun at an opportune moment. Many if not thousands of prison guards and all forms of law enforcement have guns which can be easily had by a family member who is not all there. How can the laws be air tight without having a Police State. Of which, even in China, citizens steal guns from relatives and have shoot outs with the police. You never hear about this, because they have a police state. Yet, we do business with all of these countries throughout the world who violate Human Rights !
When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is the number one movie in the United States. Us, the older generation are the ones to blame, not the kids or younger adults who have brain washed through saturation violence through the Main Stream Media, whom profits from these movies and video games !

JV, watch and learn

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Never be afraid of the truth

I beleive the reason for the finger printing was in response to the person in Wakefield who had a history as a sex offender and was never flagged. So he worked at his wifes daycare where he proceeded to molest and film children and babies. Please don't make this about guns as it is not. Massachusetts already has some of the most strictest gun laws in the country and I refuse to submit to any more controls on law abiding citizens. Our polititians need to stay on point here and stop passing knee jerk reaction legislation any time there is a masacre. If they want to do something about guns then they should try and get the federal government to step in and have our nieghbor to the north NH implement some form of gun control so they stop comming over the border and into the wrong hands

"Texas also has a fingerprint law for teachers, which led to a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency by one teacher who asserted the law violated her First Amendment right to freedom of religion."

What does freedom of religion have anything to do with getting fingerprinted?? And for those who dont or refuse to get fingerprinted 1) what are you hiding? and 2) you can always go work at Burger King!!!

J. Frye, for your information private school teachers get coried and in my case I get coried every year. Some public schools don't get coried yearly as I learned in a public discussion the other day. We would probably follow the same rules as our public counterparts since all parents and teachers are looking out for the best interest and protection of their children!

I am really sorry to see Massachusetts go the way of Texas, apparently. I "live" in Houston, by circumstance rather than by choice. I am also a teacher who now teaches only in a private school. We have had fingerprinting for quite some time in public school, but it doesn't stop the perverts from getting jobs as teachers. Some even are caught eventually. There is too much "foresight" and not enough common sense in our laws today, not only in "education,"either.

A person who thinks that mass murder was never committed without guns is a person ignorant of history...and of current events. My God. How this topic becomes a debate about guns is beyond me. It is a good thing to know if a daycare provider or a teacher has committed crimes against children in other parts of the country that has nothing to do with guns but more predatory. But seriously, if you think mass murder is not committed with weapons of savagery in this world, then you are extremely ignorant. If you have no problem forfeiting your rights that were won for you by the blood of the courageous, then go ahead in your cowardly deed but you do not speak for me who would die in defending those rights.

I was responding to johnny v's post that people dont go on murder sprees with knives-and merely pointing out that throughout history and in today's world that simply is not the case--now let me ask you this please-when you want to confiscate guns, does this also include guns belonging to criminals, like in boston for example-where gang-related murders take place almost weekly--or do you just want to disarm a law-abiding population? do you want to take a registered gun away from a woman living in fear for her life because her rapist is still on the streets and knows where she lives? the questions are endless when the knee-jerk reaction is just that and the unintended consequences are an after-thought.

Troy, here you go... http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bauerle/disaster.htm

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Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

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