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I’m going to be blunt: in a school where the doors aren’t bullet – or strong kick – proof, locking the kids in the class just ensures if THERE IS a gunman, he can systematically go down the row of classrooms, kick the door, shoot everyone. Reload. Next classroom… Or throw a grenade in the there. Or…
In fact, I can’t conceive of a single circumstance in which locking the kids in, and keeping them all like sitting ducks in a group will keep them safe.
This is when I realized the system had gone nuts.
A) NOTHING in their plan prevented an attack like Columbine’s. In fact it could be said to facilitate that type of attack.
B) It allowed teachers to self-dramatize as protectors, even though most of them weren’t armed; couldn’t have shot a lame rat in a barrel; would have wet themselves at the sight of a gun; and would never think of doing those things that could/should be done to prevent an actual massacre. You know – throw books/desks/water/vase, then make a desperate rush at the gunman while he’s confused.
And that in a nutshell is where we’ve got. Because of some well-publicized massacres and because the emphasis is put on guns (Columbine involved bombs also, which fortunately failed to go off, and the worst school massacre in the US – unless I misremember – involved bombs only) this allows the bureaucratic mind to go … stupid.
Instead of genuinely trying to prevent casualties in the case someone with evil intentions comes into the school, they try to control THE STUDENTS. This is the equivalent of keeping everyone safe by preventing them from running with scissors, even if the scissors are desperately needed to cut a noose that’s strangling someone.
Keeping the students locked in classrooms does nothing but make it easier to identify the bodies. Oh, yeah, it also allows the school to say “We did everything we could. Ms. So and So died for her students.”
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Then there’s the fact that these people have decided guns are what causes the deaths. Only guns. Not anything else.
This is not only insane, but counterproductive, and it comes totally from “bureaucratic mind and procedure.”
Note in the last article that they said everyone did what they were supposed to: so, mishearing lyrics, then arresting an innocent student, disrupting classes in the entire district and messing up people’s schedules is what the rules are DESIGNED to do?
Good to know.
Note that if the student had recorded a song – his or another – about shooting people after school, it still would not be evidence of anything, not even a vague intention to do so.
This is the type of thinking that had a teacher FROM A SCHOOL MY SON NO LONGER ATTENDED call us because “a concerned student” had called HER because my son was posting blues lyrics on his face book page and one of them referenced suicide. The teacher called us DURING SUMMER. And tried to bully us into taking the boy (who when the call came was goofing around with us on the subject of going out to play mini-golf) to a psychiatrist. BECAUSE HE QUOTED BLUES LYRICS, which he identified as blues lyrics, and was posting then analyzing in relation to the themes of blues.
Even when we pointed the context to the teacher, she insisted it was her “duty” to make us take our son to a psychiatrist. Because someone willfully misunderstood him.
I think it was NOT her duty, but her pleasure, to stick her nose in everyone’s business. And I think these rules ONLY encourage sticking their noses in everyone’s business. Instead of stopping potentially homicidal students (or people from outside) who, usually, are more careful about not giving themselves away, they only encourage teachers and schools to persecute kids (or parents) who are odd, who deviate from the norm, who behave in quirky or unusual (but completely harmless) ways.
They also encourage beating back any student disposed to fighting back or self defense.
In other words, all of these are tools for enforcing conformity.
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