Another school, another tragedy... but what if...
another school, another tragedy, another opportunity for B.O. to grandstand.
But let's talk reality here. I know that government schools are designed to bang all pegs into dodecahedron-shaped holes, but there are some older middle school and high school students and some adults who can still think.
So why don't they? Why won't they?
Every single classroom is FULL of weapons - awfully close up, but weapons. Do we really think that a shooter would proceed down a hall if people popped out of doors behind and ahead of him and started throwing chairs and skidding desks? You could build a dandy obstacle. After you consider tables and chairs, you've got books [just think of getting hit in the shoulder with a copy of the OED - even the condensed version!], supplies and backpacks. Not to mention the specialized missiles of the orchestra studio, the chemistry lab, and the gym! and ....the shop.
Yes, people will be hurt and damage will be done. But there are going to be some people hurt anyway! So why not use their injuries - use their deaths - against the bad guy, instead of huddling under a sink somewhere?
Why not teach them that they can make a change in what happens? I know, I know, teachers won't do it because they'll get in trouble. Fine. Stand up, look yourself in the eye, and DO. Deal with the trouble later. Thank whatever you believe in that you're alive to deal with being in trouble.
The one thing the students have been taught is that they have to obey their teachers. So TEACH. Help them learn that they don't have to be helpless, that they can fight back against mindless violence. What better lesson to teach them? If they survive, they'll never forget this lesson.
I'm sick and damn tired of these attacks, watching the intended victims scatter and run, or try to hide. It brings to mind the knights running down the serfs for their own amusement. They were invincible - until someone realized that a bodkin-pointedarrow would penetrate maille, and the playing field leveled .
Of course, a gun throws a more deadly missile than a person does. But quantity has a quality all its own, and enough missiles thrown by enough people will overcome one nutcase with a gun - any gun.
Teachers - and students - stop letting the moronic administrators and cowed teachers turn people into helpless victims and get them killed. Teach that there is value and virtue in protecting your own life, Teach that there's a reason that humans are at the top of the food chain.
TEACH REALITY, and life, and live.
...yes, I am a former teacher, and you can believe that I had this conversation with myself every single day.
Never Surrender,
WW
But let's talk reality here. I know that government schools are designed to bang all pegs into dodecahedron-shaped holes, but there are some older middle school and high school students and some adults who can still think.
So why don't they? Why won't they?
Every single classroom is FULL of weapons - awfully close up, but weapons. Do we really think that a shooter would proceed down a hall if people popped out of doors behind and ahead of him and started throwing chairs and skidding desks? You could build a dandy obstacle. After you consider tables and chairs, you've got books [just think of getting hit in the shoulder with a copy of the OED - even the condensed version!], supplies and backpacks. Not to mention the specialized missiles of the orchestra studio, the chemistry lab, and the gym! and ....the shop.
Yes, people will be hurt and damage will be done. But there are going to be some people hurt anyway! So why not use their injuries - use their deaths - against the bad guy, instead of huddling under a sink somewhere?
Why not teach them that they can make a change in what happens? I know, I know, teachers won't do it because they'll get in trouble. Fine. Stand up, look yourself in the eye, and DO. Deal with the trouble later. Thank whatever you believe in that you're alive to deal with being in trouble.
The one thing the students have been taught is that they have to obey their teachers. So TEACH. Help them learn that they don't have to be helpless, that they can fight back against mindless violence. What better lesson to teach them? If they survive, they'll never forget this lesson.
I'm sick and damn tired of these attacks, watching the intended victims scatter and run, or try to hide. It brings to mind the knights running down the serfs for their own amusement. They were invincible - until someone realized that a bodkin-pointedarrow would penetrate maille, and the playing field leveled .
Of course, a gun throws a more deadly missile than a person does. But quantity has a quality all its own, and enough missiles thrown by enough people will overcome one nutcase with a gun - any gun.
Teachers - and students - stop letting the moronic administrators and cowed teachers turn people into helpless victims and get them killed. Teach that there is value and virtue in protecting your own life, Teach that there's a reason that humans are at the top of the food chain.
TEACH REALITY, and life, and live.
...yes, I am a former teacher, and you can believe that I had this conversation with myself every single day.
Never Surrender,
WW
