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Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

VALLEY, Ala. (AP) — A middle school principal in eastern Alabama wants to stockpile cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms so that students could hurl them as weapons in a last-resort confrontation with a school intruder.

In a letter Friday, W.F. Burns Middle School Principal Priscella Holley asked parents to have each student bring an 8-ounce canned item.

"We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off guard," she wrote in the letter, published by TV station WHNT in Huntsville.

"The canned food item could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive," Holley wrote. "The canned food item will give the students a sense of empowerment to protect themselves and will make them feel secure in case an intruder enters their classroom."

The school is in Valley, Alabama, part of the Chambers County school system.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20150113/us-arming-students-food-cans-81e064f5f3.html

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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

Yeah, let em can the intruder.

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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

I just heard this on CBS News on our local station and thought: bad idea.

This principal hasn't thought this out well at all.

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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

That's so sad.

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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

How ridiculous. If you are going to arm the students...give them guns...I never heard can food could stop bullets.
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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

I agree with Jazzmom - not well thought out.

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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

Yes that is why people school taxes to hire people with ideas like that
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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

I don't think it's a good idea to give the students cans or guns.
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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

They are going to need target practice. Also practice playing dead. Maybe those who excell with the cans should be given advancd training using knives or those ninja stars.
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Re: Let students hurl canned food at intruders - Good idea or bad idea?

So dumb.