Teacher Unions and ALICE training
In the Globe today an Associated Press piece about active shooter training reminds us that this type of training could harm student's mental health. Framingham is involved with this program and I honestly didn't think much of it until now. Something more for parents to be aware of imo.
https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/13/teachers-unions-decry-traumatizing-active-shooter-drills
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 12:51 PM
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3 Comments:
I kept my kids out of this training by keeping them home from school. This is not the issue we should be addressing, training kids to protect themselves from perpetrators with guns. Why aren't we doing something about keeping the guns out of the hands of these people instead of training our kids to hide for their lives?
I don't know how to feel about this. I want kids to have every chance to survive an active shooter event, and that means I want them shown how to react. But I have to say, teaching an 8 year old how to barricade herself in a room to escape a sick person with a gun is not something I want the kid to go though. How about making sure people with guns can not access the school? TO me that would be money well spent.
it might be of interest if more parents gave some thought to what their children must be feeling going through the training.
I wonder how many other parents kept their kids at home... like the first poster did.
I think Sandy Hook was the horrific event that made this ALICE training a way for law enforcement to assure parents that anything was better than doing nothing.
My eyes are open wider now and I see the points made by the above parent and wonder if my grandchildren have gone through this in Milford Schools.
We have the most stringent gun laws in the country for legal gun sales and possession here in Mass, but that may not stop someone.
The doors are locked now, you have to show ID to gain access to the schools. I had to show my license the other day at the HS to get in. And I'm in favor of just plain old emergency evacuation drills like we had 50 years ago when I went to school, but again, I have no children in the schools here and may not be able to relate the same about this as parents do. I can't imagine having to worry about this every day your kids are in school.
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