Jenna recalls teaching before active school shooting drills

"I was a teacher not that long ago... I was not scared." #JennaBushHager reacts to the Nashville school shooting and how teachers are "expected" now to protect their students against guns. #hodaandjenna #todayshow #gunreform #teachers

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[MariaVOrtiz-ssqp]

The emotion in her voice...heart wrenching .but Hodas yeahs drove me crazy

[barbaraschultz]

Jenna, we feel you! As a mom, it’s insanity!

[genxjaws]

This is all absolutely outrageous. Do we care about our children or do we care about these out-of-control politicians?

[marilusr]

We practice lockdowns for intruders with firearms drill … police officers come to our school and talked to us about our safest place to be or how to act if a situation like that ever happens .. 😵‍💫

[laura]

So many people are upset about the gun safety issue in schools, but teachers like Jenna and her Mother I believe were teachers who loved their job and their students. I think it makes them feel the danger of guns in schools even more. I hope there will be measures taken to make the classrooms much safer so the teachers can just teach and the students can just learn as they all want to do.

[sevendegrees]

Talk to your NRA supporting family and friends Jenna

[elizabethhall]

I'm from a rural low-crime area, and my public schools did active shooter drills in the early 2000s

[Sarah-fegari]

I hate how Hoda dismissed Jena with this phrase yeah yeah.

[SJ-niiy]

Things have changed a lot in the last 15 years. The students are out of control and more violent.

[judithhouse]

Hoda has a VERY bad habit of "Yea, "Right", Yea". This is rude!!! She did it (16) times!!!

[nightdemon]

How many times did this person say ( yeah )

[jenniferwilliams]

Schools after 99 ran much differently then before.

[robertmccorkle]

What do they do for her father? He is protected by the secret service and they are trained and carry guns. We need to protect children in schools with trained professionals who carry guns.

[OJ-fd]

Agree 100% we need to step up and protect our kids. BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS! Better yet Ban the Bullets!

[chaunceg]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah every two seconds not hearing her I hear more of yeah than the person trying to talk 🤦🏻

[apolloangel]

That is not true. We were doing drills 20 years ago “intruders”

[amandabradley]

What has changed in the last 15 years? The guns are still the same. Maybe we need to take care of people who have serious mental health problems and while we are trying to figure and argue about how to keep kids safe let’s get some armed guards at these schools. Maybe all the celebrities could donate there security

[margaretgrupski]

In the sixties and seventies we had Fire Drills

[georganna]

We did nuclear bomb drills when I was in school in the 60's. We understood the seriousness and importance of them.

[Smokey.the.masked.besrker]

Since when is there a gun that's not scary when put into the hands of someone who doesn't know what they're doing? 😂