They didn’t sign up for reading, writing and recoil.

A majority of teachers (73 percent) reject the proposal to give some teachers and staff special training to carry guns at school, according to a new Gallup poll — including 63 percent who strongly oppose the idea and 10 percent who somewhat oppose it. Just one in five teachers favor the proposal, while 7 percent are neutral.

Seven out of 10 teachers said arming certain teachers would be “not effective at all” (47 percent) or “not too effective” (24 percent) in limiting school-shooting casualties, and 58 percent said schools would actually be less safe were select teachers and staff armed with guns. (Meanwhile, 53 percent of Americans think arming school officials who have appropriate training would be “not too” or “not at all” effective in preventing school mass shootings, previous Gallup polling found.)

As for willingness to pack heat in school buildings, 82 percent of teachers said they wouldn’t undergo the special training. The 18 percent who said they’d apply included 12 percent who felt “very confident” that with training, they could wield a gun effectively in the event of a school shooting; 4 percent who were “somewhat confident” and 2 percent who were “not too confident.”

President Trump has promoted the idea of “hardening” schools, among other policy proposals, in the wake of last month’s Parkland, Fla., mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos agreed in a widely criticized “60 Minutes” interview that arming teachers “should be an option for states and communities to consider.”

The Justice Department will help schools partner with state and local law enforcement to “train specially qualified school personnel on a voluntary basis,” the White House announced this week.

The National Education Association, which represents 3 million educators, charged in a statement last month that “(b)ringing more guns into our schools does nothing to protect our students and educators from gun violence,” arguing schools need “more books, art and music programs, nurses and school counselors” instead.

“Parents and educators overwhelmingly reject the idea of arming school staff. Educators need to be focused on teaching our students. We need solutions that will keep guns out of the hands of those who want to use them to massacre innocent children and educators,” NEA President Lily Eskelsen García said. “Arming teachers does nothing to prevent that.”

Dennis Alexander, a teacher at California’s Seaside High School who serves as a reserve police officer, was placed on administrative leave this week after accidentally discharging his firearm into the ceiling during a gun-safety demonstration and leaving three students with minor or moderate injuries.

“This was an incident with a trained professional,” father Fermin Gonzales, whose son was injured, told local news outlet KSBW. “If you just give them to everybody … this could happen again and again, and it could be a lot worse.”