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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis school districts plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.d28e721641f2David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media coverage.
Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone, Helsel explained about his Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, northeast of Harrisburg ... If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.
How accurately will those students throw rocks when they're stoned?
The "bucket of rocks" responses write themselves, I'd say, as in "dumber than..."
Note: This is not the Onion. This is not satire. This is real.
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This school districts plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks (Original Post)
hvn_nbr_2
Mar 2018
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Motley13
(3,867 posts)1. a rock, faster than the speed of a bullet, especially from AR 15s
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. This is like the 5th or 6th time this story has been posted
And every time I make the same comment.
This is a more sane idea than arming teachers - which people actually take seriously.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. Who thinks about throwing rocks when they are stoned?
The only way to stop a bad man with a stone is with a good student with a stone.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)4. "...and they will be stoned."
Well...somebody's stoned.
That's for sure.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)5. Mary Jane brownies just before target practice....
..... what could go wrong ? Have fun kids.
shanti
(21,675 posts)6. You can't make this up!
Initech
(100,080 posts)7. Did they go to the Betsy DeVos school of protecting one self from bear attacks?