Posted on 08/23/2019 9:01:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Engineers in World War I dug through the earth to build serpentine trenches borne from horrifically clear logic.
If enemy soldiers ever breached it, the zigzagging pattern would prevent them from shooting in a straight line down the length of the trench — leaving only a relative few exposed to gunfire or shrapnel.
That concept has been reinvigorated a century later, in a sense, for a western Michigan high school, to dampen the killing potential of a mass shooter.
A $48 million major construction project at Fruitport High School will add curved hallways to reduce a gunman’s range, jutting barriers to provide cover and egress, and meticulously spaced classrooms that can lock on demand and hide students in the corner, out of a killer’s sight.
“If I go to FPH and I want to be an active shooter, I’m going in knowing I have reduced sightlines,” Fruitport Superintendent Bob Szymoniak told The Washington Post about the curved hallways. “It has reduced his ability to do harm.”
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The construction in Michigan is also part of a grim reality of schools methodically preparing for massacres as if they were lesson plans and quizzes.
Jefferson County schools in Colorado have given teachers buckets and cat litter to have on hand in case children need to relieve themselves during a prolonged active-shooter lockdown. Sharpies are supplied for writing the time in which tourniquets were applied, and candy helps diabetic children with low blood sugar hiding in darkness.
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Well yeah since (according to the x-spurts) there are multiple mass school shootings every day in NRAs America.
What about a STUDENT who brings arms to the school with the intent of offing fellow students and teachers. Wouldn’t this safe room provide them protection from police arrest?
Sounds like a great place to smoke dope and make out.
millions of dollars spent and a couple $400 GLOCKS in the right hands, would end active shooters
Education’s Maginot Line.
If you’re spending millions of dollars to reduce a 0.001% risk, you’re pretty stupid.
You’d save more lives dumping the money into fire mitigation.
The curves will also block first responders sight lines, with ambush points built-in.
It would be cheaper to just take down the Gun Free Zone signs.
Why not save all that money and arm teachers with a gun that costs about $1000.00.
I know, simple solutions is not what government wants. How silly for me to think that.
When people ask why I homeschool.. this. This is the reason.
To send your kids to their potential death is ridiculous. I’ll quit my job and live in a trailer in the middle of the desert if I have to.
My granddaughter just started high school in a brand new building.
The classrooms are mostly glass on the hallway side!
Yes, I’m concerned and ask the school board,
What Were You Thinking!!
Well, if you knew there would be return fire you wouldn't go in the fist place.
The fist place?Hmmmmm!!
first, sorry
Buildings have been built like that in Israel for years.
Also high, open, ceilings and concrete zig-zags to limit bomb blast horizontal spread and direct the force upwards. (Look at El Al ticket lines to see this in the USA
Safety glass (generally with 3M shatter resistance added) is the only glass.
Window site lines that prevent clear shots from outside.
Double layered roofs to minimize rocket penetration and keep the explosion up top.
I’m sure enterprising Israeli architects will be happy to start designing USA public buildings.
“The classrooms are mostly glass on the hallway side!
What Were You Thinking!!”
They were thinking about sexual harassment lawsuits and monitoring pervert teachers.
What about a STUDENT who brings arms to the school with the intent of offing fellow students and teachers.
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And wouldn’t said student shooter also know where the safe rooms were....think Parkland Shooter.
My first thought is that the hall would also protect the shooter from the cops.
Does this new gun-protection design compliment fire escape plans? Makes it harder to know where fire is imo. Possibly makes it harder to get to fire from inside to put it out.
Insights welcome.
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