Great idea! Not.....
Posted on 01/13/2015 1:23:43 PM PST by matt04
A middle school principal in eastern Alabama wants to stockpile cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms so that students could hurl them as weapons in a last-resort confrontation with a school intruder.
In a letter Friday, W.F. Burns Middle School Principal Priscella Holley asked parents to have each student bring an 8-ounce canned item.
"We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off guard," she wrote in the letter, published by TV station WHNT in Huntsville.
"The canned food item could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive," Holley wrote. "The canned food item will give the students a sense of empowerment to protect themselves and will make them feel secure in case an intruder enters their classroom."
The school is in Valley, Alabama, part of the Chambers County school system.
The letter was sent after school employees received training from Auburn University's Department of Public Safety, Chambers County Schools Superintendent Kelli Hodge told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
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I hear Michelle Obama wants to limit your purchases of Spam to only one can per month. She calls it ‘common sense Spam control’.
NO
INTRUDERS
ALLOWED.
Don’t you mean thinking outside the can?
Looking for the satire tag...
The principal is asking every student to bring a weapon to class?
Or eating a pop tart.
Great idea! Not.....
So now instead of time to eat our peas its time to throw our peas. :-)
Principle: Loser
Idea: Loser
Children: Losers
(that participate in this)
“”Where do these people like the principal come from? Where do we get them?””
Just our bad luck, I guess. In reality we have too many of them for sure...
We were told if our hiding place was compromised prepare to fight until the shooter is incapacitated. Throwing things distracts the shooter. Pounding a fire extinguisher into his skull incapacitates him. Whatever you do, commit 100% to your plan.
By telling them to bring a can to use as a weapon, they all get expelled. Therefore, if a intruder shows up no one will be in the school because they are all expelled.
Probably not, but they’ll probably have better fundamentals. /snort
there are 2 kinds of school attacks; 1. the well trained team in which case even with teachers with ccw and school LEOs there is going to be a lot of dead. 2. more likely, the single deranged shooter. studies have shown these creatures go after soft targets so anything that can distract them is good. a locked door and he moves on, open a door, steps inside and the students throw everything they can at him and he my shoot some but most likely will move on. does her can in the classroom replace trained ccw teachers? NO but it does give the students a way to buy time until the LEOs or a trained teacher responds. most of these creatures kill themselves when confronted by armed resistance. so anything that delays his killing and disrupts his plans is good. to quote one middle school student “basically we are taught to not fight back, hide, and pray they shoot some of our classmates instead of us.”
This Principal’s brains are made of Salad
Use beets. People fear beets
How about throwing 230 grains of hot lead at him at around 850 fps? Do you think that would discourage him?
If that doesn't, throw some more at him. Continue that until he is completely inert and bled out.
How about a can of Aqua Net Hairspray and a bic lighter?
About sums it up. I’m still looking for the sarcasm tag on the article.
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