Posted on 10/10/2006 9:55:15 AM PDT by Kimmers
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School district teaches students to fight back 10/6/2006 2:52 PM By: Associated Press
BURLESON, Texas -- With school defense in mind, the Burleson school district is training students and teachers to fight back with everything from books to scissors.
Officials say the “critical incident response'' training for teachers and students instructs them to disrupt attackers by barraging them with classrooms supplies.
Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT reports that about 600 teachers in the Burleson Independent School District have been trained in response tactics. The district recently received a $95,000 federal grant to continue the training.
Lisa Crane, the principal of Norwood Elementary, said she was stumped when her husband, a former police officer, first asked her what she would do if a gunman intruded her school.
It led her husband, Greg Crane, to work with fellow police officers and military friends to develop the training.
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