so is MFA
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My Senator, ladies and gentlemen:
“As an engineer by trade, I believe the first step to improving school security is addressing the structural safety of schools. Our bill would simply create a resource where state and local officials can find best practices for school security and design,” Perdue said in a statement.
What the fuck.
Oh, and the Senator that makes it bipartisan is Doug Jones.
If I had kids in school and were notified of this lunacy I’d keep them the fuck home. Tougher spot for the teachers and admin but I would not come in either. This is deeply, deeply vile shit (I know it’s happening in many schools).
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Is there any country in the world that does anything like this?
I’m pretty sure that it’s only USA#1.
One one hand this is abominable but on the other this is a completely logical response to a world where mass shootings are commonplace. I can’t get mad at the police or the school administrators here, it’s the law and the politicians that are horrible.
I disagree, these drills are grisly charades that fail in multiple ways. Forget the issue of whether they are actually successful in conferring any real survival skills, do you think it’s ethical to subject students to the trauma/distress/fear/confusion of playacting a massacre for a microscopic, if any, % increase in their ability to Neo their way through a hailstorm of [semi lol] automatic fire?
Considerably worse (arguably), is it ethical for adults, having failed to find the political will to do the obvious, which is to restrict gun ownership severely, to force kids to perform these morbid recitals that only make the adults feel better? More kids will die the longer parents settle for half measures, and these drills are not even a half measure, they are a lunatic thousandth measure.
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I’m not convinced these drills do more good than harm. These kids will have horrible nightmares about this experience, for starters.
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So are the people planning this drill paying for the decades of PTSD that these kids will wrath?
My main issues with it are the fact that they are actually firing blanks, the loud noises could certainly be scary for these kids and amplify chances of PTSD. Second issue is that I think a lot of kids will not take it seriously. Third issue is that I’m not aware of any data that shows these drills actually help.
The only pro i can think is that it helps the police officers practice what to do and improve their plan.
So let the cops do it on the weekend when the kids aren’t there if they need practice.
yeah pretty much.
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If I were a teacher and I knew even one of my colleagues carried a gun to work, I would be out. If there’s an armed guard, maybe I could live with that as the least worst idea, although it is still a terrible idea.