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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. --Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged.
"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.
This was WAY out of bounds...obviously, this ass't principal does not value his job! The entire concept of training for an attack does makes sense, but parents needed to have input here on how to conduct the training. Doesn't look like that happened at all, from the article.
I am patriotic,I believe in the founding principles of this country,I like to believe they will prevail.But with so much going on,with so many issues from economic,immigration to loss of morals specially respect for life I just gotta wonder what the future of America will be.
To do this to kids,as a drill is unreal.If wackos are gonna go on a rampage,better to have teachers with concealed carrry instead of torturing kids in this manner...and how would hiding under a desk stop a crazy anyway?Wanna stop a wacko?,you need to put them down in their tracks.
Until life becomes precious and respected again,taking on a bad guy will be the only way to save lives.
when a wacko enters a class room with a weapon there is nowhere to run.If you want to have a drill,have a drill on confronting the attacker,otherwise you are at the attackers mercy.
We are not dealing with a mugger or thief that "if you do what they want you won't get hurt" mentality.We are dealing with a mentality of "my life sucks,and Im going to spread as much misery like I feel before I end it also".
Though the method be somewhat unorthodox, I can see the point of instruction here.
Somewhat unorthodox? That is an understatement! It would be bad enough to do this with/to high school age kids, much less these young kids. Let me tell you, that there would have been hell to pay with the school authorities, had that been my children involved in such idiocy!
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