Teachers armed with rocks. No, really.

[D. Hargrove]

Archaic comes to mind... Then they can pull the women around by their hair too...

Yep, 2018 and we have rocks and cavemen.....

 

[Annie]

Archaic comes to mind... Then they can pull the women around by their hair too...

View attachment 116083 Yep, 2018 and we have rocks and cavemen.....

Oh the places we could go ...





WHAT?!?!!? Some girls LIKE to have their hair pulled ... I heard ... or maybe I read it somewhere ...

 

[RugersGR8]

I think this KY superduperintendent has made a few too many trips to the moonshine still out in back of the school.

 

[dennishoddy]

If this is a good idea, I wasted those 7 years in college to get my associates!!

By KRISTEN DE GROOT
Associated Press

A rural school district in Pennsylvania is arming teachers and students with buckets of rocks as a last resort should an armed intruder burst in, the superintendent said Friday.

Every classroom in the district about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia has a 5-gallon bucket of river stones, said Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel.

"We always strive to find new ways to keep our students safe," Helsel told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, adding that the rocks are one small part of the district's overall security plan.

Throwing rocks is more effective than just crawling under desks and waiting, and it gives students and teachers a chance to defend themselves, he said. The district has about 2,700 students at three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school.

Staff and students in the Blue Mountain district have been trained in a program called "ALICE" which stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. Helsel said the rocks are part of the "counter" portion of training, fighting back if the intruder makes his way into the classroom.

The buckets are kept in classroom closets.

Kenneth Trump, president of the Cleveland-based National School Safety and Security Services, a K-12 security consulting firm, calls the idea illogical and irrational and said it could possibly cost lives.

He said the efforts fill an emotional security need, but don't actually enhance security.

One high school senior said he supports the plan, adding that throwing rocks is better than throwing books or pencils.

Parents also have been supportive of the measure, which was implemented in the fall.

"At this point, we have to get creative, we have to protect our kids first and foremost," parent Dori Bornstein told WNEP-TV. "Throwing rocks, it's an option."

http://www.kswo.com/story/37797865/district-arms-teachers-with-rocks-in-case-of-school-shooter

Are you fawking shitting me? What liberal idiot thought this crap up? Oh, I see the name now. I hope he is looking for a new job, and is fired by the parents.

 

[druryj]

This isn’t real...is it? I mean, it’s so freakin’ stupid. Rocks. Jeebus.


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[D. Hargrove]

This isn’t real...is it?

Oh yes it is. Makes ya wonder how we actually survive day to day huh?

 

[dennishoddy]

Same idiot is probably against guns in schools to protect the children because of his hatred for guns.
Kids lives are secondary to his philosophical beliefs and that's the bottom line.

 

[RugersGR8]

School Superintendent's Certificate----just when did they start puttin' those into boxes of Cracker Jacks??

 

[D. Hargrove]

It is ridiculous, rocks of all things. Now I am interested to see the POI (program of instruction) that teaches the proper training, techniques and procedures for engaging said bad guy with rocks without exposing yourself to hostile fire.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Saw this last night on the news. Just shut the tv off and went to bed thankful that my kiddo is grown up now.