Posted on 07/06/2018 5:24:48 AM PDT by george76
FASTER Colorado's active shooter training for teachers.
Last week I went through the training many of the teachers who are authorized to carry a gun in Colorado schools go through.
In the wake of the devastating school shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Tex., many different solutions have been proposed for how to stop or at least curb the violence inflicted by active shooters. Among the most prominent solutions—thanks in large part to President Trump's advocacy—is arming teachers. Most, however, don't understand how arming teachers works in person or that a number of states already allow certain teachers to carry guns.
FASTER, which stands for Faculty / Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response, is a course offered with assistance from nonprofit organizations in Ohio and Colorado that have successfully trained hundreds of teachers. FASTER Colorado was kind enough to let me fly out to Denver and attend the three-day class and fully participate in all of the shooting, medical, and strategy drills it entails.
After completing the course and passing the shooting qualification, I came away extremely impressed.
As a certified firearms instructor, I can tell you this is much more than basic firearms and safety training. It is an advanced course taught by active-duty law enforcement officers that incorporates the best in civilian active shooter training and sorely needed medical training rarely available to the public.
The class starts off with the most important aspect of countering an active shooter: mindset. It was remarkable to me how similar the mindset taught by FASTER was to the mindset taught in the incredibly impressive Israeli Tactical School class I took in 2016. Aggression is the key. Either go 100 percent or don't go at all.
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Your mindset is as important as, if not more important than, your marksmanship.
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>>And we’re supposed to trust them with firearms?
It is voluntary. I was discussing this with a couple friends who are Proggie teachers and mentioned the idea of arming teachers and they both recoiled at the idea. One said that having a gun would make it impossible to for him to teach becuase all he would think about is the gun.
So, in answer to your question, I doubt that these are the kinds of people who are taking the class.
Exactly!
Proof is the drop in crime as cities approve concealed carry.
AND
The rise in crime in cities that oppress the right to carry.
Now, now-
You were a little out of order yourself.,,
LOL
Figuring out how to save lives is never out of order ... live and learn ... we all make mistakes I’ll choose to save a life if possible .. but I am but one
Even if the school says "un-armed" there are probably a few employees who will be armed in spite of such rules. A good female family friend worked for a major southern university that had a "no guns allowed" rule. But she carried every day and everywhere on campus.
After going through the 26-hours of training, I can safely say the teachers and school staff who've taken the course are receiving exactly they kind of preparation they'll need should they ever face an attack on their school. It was honestly the best and most comprehensive training I've ever had. That's not to say they shouldn't seek further training and most will be required to take the FASTER course again next year to requalify. But, after this first-hand experience, I'm confident the kids in the schools that employ these teachers and staff are safer than they otherwise would be.
Good for your family friend. The ranks of the sheepdogs to protect the sheep increases because your family friend chooses to protect. Thank her for us all please
Her aunt was career military. Obviously that had a positive effect on her thinking.
IMO, any father who does NOT teach his daughter(s) to shoot, and see that they have a CCW and appropriate weaponry when they become age eligible is derelict.
Unfortunately, my wife and I never had children, so the above pleasure is ruled out (got plenty nieces, but I also have the strange belief that it is a parent’s responsibility and inappropriate for more distant relatives).
Broad brush painting. It isn’t realistic.
Your post could mean a couple of different things. Please elaborate.
One size does not fit all.
Let’s just say that one of us has a clearer understanding of the realities surrounding public education than the other.
Lets just say the one with the clearer understanding may not be you.
Wow! A HIGH SCHOOL teacher! So impressive.
With those credentials why would anyone question your judgement?
Maybe in your own little world that’s a valid statement - valid for now that is - but the evidence (both direct and anecdotal) for the vast majority of government schools in this country says otherwise.
Enjoy your summer vacation!
The behavior of school systems is entirely a character of the individual school, often in accordance within the region the school is located. Liberal regions have liberal schools. Conservative regions have conservative schools.
My credentials are really based upon 46 years of real-world engineering experience. I teach part time only, but because I enjoy bringing Embedded Computing to the young geeks.
For the summer I am working four embedded projects for clients I have retained even after retirement. Two of those projects are instrumentation systems for post-surgical medical systems. Don't be making assumptions regarding people's credentials just because what they offer to you is outside of your own opinions or experience.
By the way. You have a Christian by-line, but don’t much act like one.
“Still, you say ALL of the teachers are guilty of...”
Whoa there partner, I said no such thing. Go back to post 38 where I said that maybe in your world that is a valid statement...
I did acknowledge that possibility.
I’m sorry you regard that as un-christian but, as they say in baseball, “I call ‘em as I see ‘em”.
Now go back to your post #8, where you said, "These are the same people who indoctrinate the kids into anti American globalism and promote all things LGBTQ." That is where I took exception to your broad-brush painting of teachers. Teachers are as individual as folks in any other workforce; and, we have ways of pushing back on any liberal administrators who rear their unwanted heads.
I have but two years of teaching. The rest of my life was a wonderful career in electronics/software engineering. I'm having twilight fun with my high-school geeks.
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