| Unleashing Police Gunmen On Students: America's Hot New Educational Fad [message #149678] |
Fri, 25 October 2013 11:40 |
CyberkNight
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IF you missed last week's "mad gunman terrorizes American schoolchildren" news story, this time out of North Carolina, don't feel bad; these days they're common enough that it's not reasonable to expect any one person can keep up with them all.
Still, last week's story was notable for two reasons: One, nobody actually got shot; and two, the gunman was on the school's payroll. Seriously: Administrators at Eastern Wayne Middle School later sent parents a letter explaining that they sent a masked gunman to various sixth-grade classrooms as an "enrichment lesson on exhibiting good citizenship and observing your surroundings."
It's unclear exactly what good-citizenship lesson the kids were supposed to learn -- "sphincter control," perhaps -- but it's a lucky thing none of the kids tried anything heroic, like disarming the gunman, because any student who did that would surely be kicked out of school.
Again, seriously. Last March, that's exactly what happened to a Florida high school boy after he disarmed a fellow student who was aiming a loaded weapon at a third classmate. School spokesmen justified the hero kid's suspension because, "If there is a potentially dangerous situation, Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing."
See? The school was only trying to avoid harm from a potentially dangerous situation, and when you're in charge of guiding impressionable youth, it makes perfect sense to teach them "Never stop a gunman from shooting his intended victim, lest you create a potentially dangerous situation."
More and more American schools honestly believe "fear for their lives" (without trying to defend themselves, because danger) is a perfectly cromulent lesson to teach kids. Last May, the New York Daily News ran a story discussing this trend, under the incredibly depressing headline "Gun attack drills more realistic, intense as schools brace for a possible 'active shooter' incident."
Full article: http://www.anorak.co.uk/371375/news/unleashing-police-gunmen -on-students-americas-hot-new-educational-fad.html/
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