Posted on 04/13/2018 11:08:23 AM PDT by Simon Green
Another Pennsylvania school district adopted an unorthodox approach this month to fighting back against armed intruders — this time, in the form of tiny wooden bats.
Millcreek Township School District in suburban Erie handed out the 16-inch “souvenir bats” to more than 500 teachers and staff on April 2 after updating its security plan in the wake of high-profile school shootings across the country. The district serves more than 7,400 students and spent roughly $1,800 on the bats.
Superintendent William Hall defended the decision Thursday after media reports surfaced mocking the district’s approach.
“We hope the day will never come that our staff will have to defend students and themselves,” he said. “However, we want our staff to know that in a life and death situation, an attack option may be necessary and to use any available tool at their disposal.”
Hall reiterated the bats serve as a last-resort, only authorized for use in a “hard lockdown” situation, in addition to whatever else staff could utilize as a weapon — including chairs, staplers, books and fire extinguishers.
“It is not the primary deterrent, but rather it is something that may be used in an emergency situation, and symbolizes our intent to take an active approach to defending our students and staff under threat,” he said.
Millcreek is just the second school district in the state to adopt an unusual attack plan against active shooters. Blue Mountain School District, about 90 miles east of Philadelphia, placed five gallon buckets of river rocks in all of its classrooms last month as a “last resort” for teachers in an emergency situation.
“If an armed attacker attempts to gain access to our classroom, they will face a students armed with rocks and they will be stoned,” said Superintendent David Helsel last month. “They are the right size for hands. You can throw them very hard and they will create or cause pain, which can distract.”
Really? One school in Pennsylvania gives teachers rocks, and then another one gives teachers bats. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but guns.....
Stonehenge moment.
Gloria AllRed will give classes on proper use of bats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQjw4ycPTE
“we have just become a nation of old women”
This one has spirit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7iz1HTh9U
Thank God my grandchildren are students in Texas where teachers are carrying every day. It has worked in Israel for decades, so this should be a no brainer.
That’ll be familiar.
First person old shooter games like “Doom” where the creatures use their claws and bats and you have a shooting weapon. Will there be points on the teachers?
Sorry for being so horrid and crass but I’m trying to view situational presentation through the eyes of a maniac mass murderer without a soul.
But I saw a meme on Today's Toons this morning that asked, what if the bad guy had paper?
Doesn't paper beat rocks in the "rock, scissors, paper" game? What then?
Just askin'..... :-)
How about a pile of rocks, or cans of beans?
School school idiots have bats flying around in their craniums.
Get your kids out NOW!!!!
By the way....Where are all the so-called “good” teachers that are protesting this?
(Crickets...chirp...chirp...!)
Assault bats..:black....now the mentally deranged will have to attack elsewhere....
Funny, She had that bump stock going. She is tougher that Sessions.
Trust me; you still need the beatings, just as I do.
"Follow the money". Somebody must have a warehouse full of those things and what is his relation to the person who bought them for the school system?
They look less than useless for defense against even an unarmed teenager, never mind a shooter.
How about throwing a fire extinguisher, or better still, a fire axe?
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