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SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. -- Theres a rocky controversy when it comes to school safety in Schuylkill County.
The superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District is in the spotlight after telling lawmakers in Harrisburg his students protect themselves against potential school shooters with rocks.
Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone. If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks and they will be stoned, said Dr. David Helsel.
That was Dr. Helsel testifying to the House Education Committee last week in Harrisburg.
The superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District was explaining his unconventional form of protecting the students in their schools in the event of an active shooter situation: give them rocks.
At one time I just had the idea of river stone, they`re the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard and they will create or cause pain, which can distract, said Helsel.
Helsel says teachers, staff and students were given active shooter training through a program known as ALICE which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate and they routinely hold evacuation drills for active shooter simulations.
But if a teacher decides to lockdown a classroom, there are rocks in a five-gallon bucket kept in every classroom closet that students could throw if shooters get inside
OH, GAWD---
http://wnep.com/2018/03/22/superintendent-says-students-are-armed-with-rocks-in-case-of-a-school-shooting/
oberliner
(58,724 posts)hlthe2b
(102,301 posts)silly as it might sound...
Blue Owl
(50,443 posts)n/t
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Or at the teacher.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)inexperience with fire arms. I was pretty deadly with a fast ball in my day
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,755 posts)Dr. Hesel, I think you must be stoned. Nobody could come up with such a galactically stupid idea unless they were baked to the eyeballs.
malthaussen
(17,205 posts)The rocks should be on each desk, right at hand. Of course, we have to hope the students will not then use them on each other -- or the teacher.
Well, except for the girls, of course. Everyone knows girls can't throw.
-- Mal
packman
(16,296 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)"Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned"
---Bob Dylan