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The incident, acknowledged in testimony this week before state lawmakers, was confirmed by two elementary school teachers in Monticello, who described an exercise in which teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning.
“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” said one of the two teachers, both of whom asked IndyStar not to be identified out of concern for their jobs. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times.
...The teachers union wants a pending bill on active-shooter training in schools to include language banning instructors from using their trainees for target practice, the report said.
You can't pretend shoot me in an active shooter drill! I want my union to fix it so this doesn't happen again!
"She said she had welts and one spot where the pellet broke her skin. It was scabbed over for several weeks."
lmao Who in their right mind thinks this type of training is okay? Answer no one because you'd have to be out of your mind to think this is appropriate training for teachers.
Here let me shoot you with this airsoft gun just so you'll be aware that people die because teachers couldn't possibly figure that out otherwise.
I think the instructor had a problem with teachers back in the day.
What a dumb idea, it was probably someone in law enforcement who came up with this goofy idea.
I dont understand shooting them with plastic pellets...if they were in a real active shooter situation, they wouldnt be using pellets, and probably would not go to all the trouble of having them kneel down and face the opposite direction, they would just put a few in their chest, and move on the next victim.
This is not teacher training. Teacher training used to be about how to teach and how to get the kids to behave in class. Not about bullets. It never was a good job--always low paying and no room for advancement, but now they're supposed to worry about getting shot. So don't let anyone you love become a teacher. ever.
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