Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Principal: Let students hurl canned food at intruders
The State ^

Posted on 01/13/2015 1:23:43 PM PST by matt04

A middle school principal in eastern Alabama wants to stockpile cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms so that students could hurl them as weapons in a last-resort confrontation with a school intruder.

In a letter Friday, W.F. Burns Middle School Principal Priscella Holley asked parents to have each student bring an 8-ounce canned item.

"We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off guard," she wrote in the letter, published by TV station WHNT in Huntsville.

"The canned food item could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive," Holley wrote. "The canned food item will give the students a sense of empowerment to protect themselves and will make them feel secure in case an intruder enters their classroom."

The school is in Valley, Alabama, part of the Chambers County school system.

The letter was sent after school employees received training from Auburn University's Department of Public Safety, Chambers County Schools Superintendent Kelli Hodge told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 2ndthread; banglist; chat; guncontrol; valley
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-111 next last
To: Brother Cracker

I hear Michelle Obama wants to limit your purchases of Spam to only one can per month. She calls it ‘common sense Spam control’.


41 posted on 01/13/2015 1:46:19 PM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: fungoking
This is the training video shown by my local police.

Link to Video

42 posted on 01/13/2015 1:47:20 PM PST by SSS Two
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: matt04
How about posting a sign:

NO
INTRUDERS
ALLOWED.

43 posted on 01/13/2015 1:48:07 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

Don’t you mean thinking outside the can?


44 posted on 01/13/2015 1:48:50 PM PST by erkelly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: matt04

Looking for the satire tag...


45 posted on 01/13/2015 1:50:14 PM PST by FatherFig1o155 ("Most bad government results from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: matt04

The principal is asking every student to bring a weapon to class?


46 posted on 01/13/2015 1:50:28 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kingu

Or eating a pop tart.


47 posted on 01/13/2015 1:51:22 PM PST by matt04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: matt04

Great idea! Not.....

48 posted on 01/13/2015 1:52:21 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: matt04

So now instead of time to eat our peas its time to throw our peas. :-)


49 posted on 01/13/2015 1:52:56 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: matt04
Taking a can of peas to a gunfight.

Principle: Loser
Idea: Loser
Children: Losers
(that participate in this)

50 posted on 01/13/2015 1:53:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“”Where do these people like the principal come from? Where do we get them?””

Just our bad luck, I guess. In reality we have too many of them for sure...


51 posted on 01/13/2015 1:54:17 PM PST by Thank You Rush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: fungoking
A last resort, if a shooter has breached the door, is throwing things and running away. Bad things are still going to happen but the numbers will be lower.

We were told if our hiding place was compromised prepare to fight until the shooter is incapacitated. Throwing things distracts the shooter. Pounding a fire extinguisher into his skull incapacitates him. Whatever you do, commit 100% to your plan.

52 posted on 01/13/2015 1:54:43 PM PST by SSS Two
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: loungitude

By telling them to bring a can to use as a weapon, they all get expelled. Therefore, if a intruder shows up no one will be in the school because they are all expelled.


53 posted on 01/13/2015 1:55:29 PM PST by matt04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Probably not, but they’ll probably have better fundamentals. /snort


54 posted on 01/13/2015 1:56:20 PM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ZOOKER

there are 2 kinds of school attacks; 1. the well trained team in which case even with teachers with ccw and school LEOs there is going to be a lot of dead. 2. more likely, the single deranged shooter. studies have shown these creatures go after soft targets so anything that can distract them is good. a locked door and he moves on, open a door, steps inside and the students throw everything they can at him and he my shoot some but most likely will move on. does her can in the classroom replace trained ccw teachers? NO but it does give the students a way to buy time until the LEOs or a trained teacher responds. most of these creatures kill themselves when confronted by armed resistance. so anything that delays his killing and disrupts his plans is good. to quote one middle school student “basically we are taught to not fight back, hide, and pray they shoot some of our classmates instead of us.”


55 posted on 01/13/2015 1:56:31 PM PST by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: matt04

This Principal’s brains are made of Salad


56 posted on 01/13/2015 2:03:06 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: matt04

Use beets. People fear beets


57 posted on 01/13/2015 2:05:11 PM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: matt04
I've got a better idea.

How about throwing 230 grains of hot lead at him at around 850 fps? Do you think that would discourage him?

If that doesn't, throw some more at him. Continue that until he is completely inert and bled out.

58 posted on 01/13/2015 2:06:15 PM PST by Gritty (Jihad victims continue to pile up and the West continues to sleepwalk through it all-Bruce Thornton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mbarker12474

How about a can of Aqua Net Hairspray and a bic lighter?


59 posted on 01/13/2015 2:07:20 PM PST by funfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: ZOOKER

About sums it up. I’m still looking for the sarcasm tag on the article.


60 posted on 01/13/2015 2:07:47 PM PST by Bulwyf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-111 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson