Community Chat

[GingerPeach]

Has anyone gone to the ALICE website?

It was started by a police officer after Columbine for his wife, a school principal.  Lots of info, even for individuals, and for all sorts of settings, not just schools.  Hospitals, workplaces, etc. 

alicetraining dot com

Everybody breathe!

[ValentinaBon]

@GingerPeach I will definitely check it out, thank you!

[maestra]

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@Soonerwrote:

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@cherry  The same way you protect passengers on planes.  Restrict access, check things carried in, and have people wear badges and be identified.  Listen to reports and social media for signs of trouble.  Pay security services.  You need to have someone trained on site to deal with an attack of any kind.

It's about keeping dangerous individuals from having access.  Where there is a will there is a way.  If you want to hurt people you will find a way.  If you want to obatin a weapon it is easy in this country.  Or you can make one.

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The first step is locking down a campus; FL high school had open access.

Our kiddos really had to be taught NOT to open doors to anyone, even if they knew the person. Everyone buys into maintaining a safe school campus.

This forced that individual to have to sign in at our office, get ID , and video taped.

Windows are bullet proofed and office staff can restrict access before school is ever entered.

All facility doors have video and are locked down.

Better than a bucket of rocks, no?

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[kitcat51]

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@cherrywrote:

Yeah right... just shoot the messenger because you don't like the message,  talk to some of the parents that have burried their kids ,because no one has tried to stop this

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@cherrywrote:

Yeah right... just shoot the messenger because you don't like the message,  talk to some of the parents that have burried their kids ,because no one has tried to stop this

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Cherry, I think you are well meaning but you must reconize that a plan that won't work gives a sense of false security & is worse than no plan at all. Every school can take steps to make children safer by getting police, parents & business involved, the idea that no one cares & is doing nothing isn't true. The stunning failures of the school, police & the FBI in the FL school shooting should not be excused & they should be held accountable instead of blaming gun rights & owners. I wish you well.

[cherry]

The only better, is funding for  decent  school security ,and  laws about selling semi automatic weapons to people not in law enforcement...

[cherry]

It might comfort you to think people care, I don't see any evidence of this at all...if they did  they would have made changes

[SusieQ_2]

I feel like the rock idea could lead to a host of problems including lawsuits against the school district. Imagine if a shooting did take place and the students who ran or played dead survived while the kid who stood up with a rock (and the "shoot me first" sign that should go with it) is shot. What do you think would happen in the aftermath?

Seriously, a school official telling children to engage with an armed gunman is a big mistake.  

[Cakers3]

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@SusieQ_2wrote:

I feel like the rock idea could lead to a host of problems including lawsuits against the school district. Imagine if a shooting did take place and the students who ran or played dead survived while the kid who stood up with a rock (and the "shoot me first" sign that should go with it) is shot. What do you think would happen in the aftermath?

Seriously, a school official telling children to engage with an armed gunman is a big mistake.  

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@SusieQ_2  Agree. 

btw:  Just because some of us do not agree with rocks being the solution doesn't mean that we are not aware, do not care, have had nothing to say in RL.

I know where I was today; how about everyone else?

[SusieQ_2]

@Cakers3 It sounds like you may have attended a rally today. If so, that's awesome...and thank you. 

[suzyQ3]

@cherry, I do enjoy posting with you. As an experienced poster, surely you know that this topic and suggestion would go over like a lead balloon?

You keep saying that at least this guy has a plan and the rest of us don't. That's not true at all. Many of us have our ideas or our solutions, but no one is listening. This beautiful  day today will come and go. But until something substantially changes with TPTB, no one will listen to us.

But just having a plan doesn't make him praiseworthy at all. His plan is ludicrous and dangerous. Please allow us here to voice disagreement with his plan without being insulted. You are better than that.