Posted on 01/17/2015 2:29:05 AM PST by BCW
School shootings are a very real and very serious danger. The last few years have seen an alarming number of deranged individuals — some of them students — march into their local school and open fire with powerful weapons.
Schools around the nation are coming up with preparedness plans like safety drills and procedures, many of them consulting with local law enforcement to educate students on what to do in the event of an attack. This is a good thing (albeit a sad commentary on our times). It's smart. Necessary.
But when most of us think of ways our kids can be protected or even defend themselves, I don't think this is what springs to mind.
That's right: a handful of schools across the nation are instituting a new policy that requires students to come to school with a can of food to use to defend themselves. Canned foods. As self defense. Against someone with a gun or a knife.
...the answer comes to you......loud and clear!
Maybe just a pile of sticks and stones...why waste the food? It is still like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Libs won’t get it until the bullet enters their brain, but then they won’t be able to see their error.
To heck with view ports. Classrooms need embrasures.
So the teacher can shoot back?
I won’t flame you. I think non-liberal teachers should be armed, myself.
Well, it would finally be a good use for canned green peas.
Give the cans to the hungry. Bring a rock....better yet, teach Christianity!
No books to throw anymore, so they request cans.
What if the intruder is armed with a banana?.....or a pointy stick?
POST OF THE DAY - ahahah
Don’t give them any ideas ;)
Make the desk tops out of ceramic armor plate. The kids can tip over the desk dot build a real defensive fort and the teacher can fire back through the embrasures. Better than cans of beans.
I have no objection to teaching kids to think about what to do in an emergency, how to weaponize anything that comes to hand. Heck, give them the chance to sit through the old MacGyver series. Granted, Mac had an aversion to guns, but he could make a weapon out of anything and that’s the type of thinking that kids need. I have no objection to guns, but don’t want them in the hands of kids at school. What I do want is for kids to be able to defend themselves should the need arise.
Back when I was a substitute teacher, we were told to make all the kids come into the classroom, turn out the lights, lock the door if you had a key (not all subs did) and make the kids sit up against a wall such that they could not be seen through any glass in the classroom door. Then, be QUIET. In other words, hide and hope for the best. While that may or may not work, I’d rather have a kid who could think on his/her feet and plan an offense should the need arise, or figure out an escape plan.
Sitting quietly and hoping for the best is not much of an option. Throwing cans could be helpful, or swinging them in a bag could help, too, but not that much, short of a sneak attack.
There are lots of things in the classroom or in bookbags or handbags that can be weaponized and kids need to be taught how to look at things in that light. Hopefully, this will never be necessary, but who knows?
Huddled, doing nothing? Hardly. See what the World Religion teacher plans to do.
The W.H. Burns Middle School letter cited a couple of instances other schools’ employing canned goods in ALICE-inspired intruder drills, such as the Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Massachusetts:
Each science classroom is equipped with cans of soup to be thrown at the intruder in the instance that the intruder enters the classroom. Many students and teachers have thought of more creative ways to handle the situation; textbooks, chairs, calculators, and other heavy classroom materials have been suggested as possible defense equipment. English teacher Kate Fleming even suggested equipping each student with a hardcover edition of Madame Bovary....World Religions teacher Ethan Hoblitzelle encouraged a calm state of mind during these drills by allowing his students to meditate.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/canattack.asp#i5mztGJDCWwPC3pb.99
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