Posted on 02/25/2010 9:46:19 AM PST by Seamus Mc Gillicuddy
I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month.
Current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims.
An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others..........
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
You have got to be kidding... is she for real? Spread the death too? I guess next we should interfere with all the "smart" Zebra's that elude prey because it's not fair to the stupid ones... UFB!!
I’ll bet this guy hates Christianity and teaches Evolution every chance he gets but at the same time does not believe in survival of the fittest for children.
You can’t post stuff like this at lunch time. I don’t think I can finish mine...
Brockton is a cesspool.
People, this is a joke, it’s not real. The guy is doing a Rush Limbaugh: illustrating absurdity by being absurd. He has another similar letter posted in another paper.
Which is why I send my kids to rural Texas schools.
Ahhh, remembering back to the days when we’d park our pickups in the school parking lot with doors unlocked and windows rolled down, a gun in the headache rack and ammo rolling around on the floor, and walk unconcerned into class with a knife in our boot.
Some do nothing, and thereby prepare to be helpless, government-dependent, and seriously harmed or dead. Some prepare to protect themselves and survive.
This teacher's preparation method, IMHO, will not protect him very well in a disaster of the manmade/firearm type. But that is his choice. However I would say that his dead, prone body may provide temporary cover for someone who is better prepared, so perhaps his approach will save someone else's life.
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Libs Progressives have to be among the most stupid of all creatures. Unbelievable.
>> An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others. Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.
He’d rather be an equal sitting-duck? Are schools really about evenly distributing the likelihood of being shot? I am rarely speechless. Stupidity abounds.
>> Some propose overturning laws that made schools gun-free zones even for teachers who may be licensed to securely carry concealed firearms elsewhere. They argue that barring licensed-carry only ensures a defenseless, target-rich environment. But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.
Self-defense is a gun crime? Again, speechless.
Luckily for you, there is no duty to self-defense — so rest comfortably as a non-violent sitting duck. Luckily for me (and you), I have the right to self-defense, and am willing to save your candy-ass along with my own.
SnakeDoc
Same way here in Michigan into the early 80s when I was in school. If we brought a gun into the building it had to be locked in the principal’s office till after school though.
Run for your life is a politically incorrect thing to say.
Home School Your Kids.
Caddis the Younger
“An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others.”
This is the single most idiotic statement I’ve ever heard. This idiot is a school teacher? The NEA has done more damage to school children over the years than any mass murderer could hope to.
“But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.”
Uhhhhh.....
Naw, he’d be knocking kids out of his way running to hide in the closet and would be found first with his ever increasing blubbering and sniveling.
In other news, dozens of Freepers fail to recognize satire when they see it.
Man, I sure hope so. Today's Liberal is so whacked that nobody is surprised to hear such nonsense.
I’d bet dollars to donuts this is meant as satire
“A level barrel is fair to all fish” - Puh-leeze. He’s putting forth the most absurd opinion to get people to think about what a “gun-free” zone means - only criminals have the guns.
My opinion - your’s may vary
One thing I noticed about the teacher who prevented further damage in the Colorado shooting the other day. He seemed to know enough about guns to be effective at stopping it.
He said that he knew it was a bolt action rifle so he knew the kid wouldn’t have enough time to chamber a round and fire before he was able to tackle him. A little knowledge went a long way even for an unarmed man.
The clown in this article probably sees every weapon as an assault rifle.
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