Posted on 03/24/2018 1:19:43 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A Pennsylvania school district has armed its students with rocks to defend themselves in the event of a school shooting.
David Helsel, the superintendent of Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, said at a state House Education Committee hearing on school safety this week that his district's classrooms are equipped with 5-gallon buckets of river rocks.
"If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance to any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks," he said. "And they will be stoned."
Helsel emphasized to Buzzfeed News that the so-called "go buckets" are a "last-resort" effort in the district's active school shooter defense plan, which also includes automatic door-securing technology and lock-in and lockdown procedures.
Helsel said that the buckets have been in classrooms for two years. Media outlets picked up the story this week after he spoke about the plan at the hearing. He said that he thinks news outlets have taken the plan "out of context to make it look silly."
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