A Pennsylvania school district is arming classrooms with buckets of rocks as a last-ditch defense against mass shooters.
David Helsel, superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, told ABC News on Friday that every elementary, middle and high school classroom in the district is stocked with a 5-gallon bucket full of river stones for students and teachers to pelt an armed intruder.
“We’ve been trying to be proactive just in case,” Mr. Helsel said. “How can you aim a gun if you’re being pelted with rocks?”
Mr. Helsel said faculty members and students are given active shooter training through a program known as ALICE, which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate, a local ABC affiliate reported.
The stones, he said, serve as a last resort for if a shooter is able to gain access to a locked down classroom.
“We have devices installed in our doors that help to secure them, to make it very difficult to break through,” Mr. Helsel said. “We also have, we train kids and talk about barricading the doors.”
“If someone can provide a better last-ditch response to an armed intruder that’s trying to gain access to a classroom, then I would be open to any idea,” he said
#1: misterwhite To: All (#0)
Wait! It's coming to me ...
misterwhite posted on 2018-03-23 15:24:26 Reply Private Reply
#2: Fred Mertz To: misterwhite (#0)
Fred Mertz posted on 2018-03-23 15:24:48 Reply Private Reply
#3: misterwhite To: All (#0)
A 5-gallon bucket full of river stones, just sitting there in the corner of every classroom.
Meaning every child is reminded every day that they may be murdered in their school.
They sit in class, staring at that bucket, knowing what it represents.
THIS is the liberal solution? This is conducive to a good learning environment?
A student can't draw a picture of a gun because that might disturb the other students. But a bucketful of "last resort" rocks in the classroom is supposed to be what? Soothing?
misterwhite posted on 2018-03-23 15:39:06 Reply Private Reply
#4: misterwhite To: Fred Mertz (#2)
If they weren't used in Home Alone 1, 2, 3 or 4, then no.
I mean, that must be where the school district got the idea from. The cans of paint above the doors didn't work.
misterwhite posted on 2018-03-23 15:46:10 Reply Private Reply
#5: Liberator To: misterwhite (#0)
(No spitballs??)
Liberator posted on 2018-03-23 15:55:55 Reply Private Reply
#6: GrandIsland To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Those are reserved for the Shitcago schools.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-03-23 20:05:38 Reply Private Reply
#7: sneakypete To: misterwhite (#0)
Good question! Maybe he can fill a bucket full of river rocks,and walk down the street in Harlem 100 dollar bills hanging out of his pockets,and find out for us how effective throwing rocks is?
Don't you have to defend your theories in grad school? This should be a cinch for a bright guy like him!
sneakypete posted on 2018-03-23 21:05:07 Reply Private Reply