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posted by mrpg on Monday April 01 2019, @12:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the yes dept.

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A school in Indiana has been criticised for apparently shooting teachers "execution style" with pellets as part of an "active-shooter drill". The case has reignited conversations about the usefulness of drills and the methods used to prepare schools for shootings.

[...] Many experts agree that discussing and practising how to respond to a dangerous situation will help protect students who find themselves faced with the real thing. Fire drills, for example, are well established tools to teach children how to behave in a potentially life-threatening situation.

[...] While more realistic and stressful situations may be appropriate here, he says "large-scale, prolonged, realistic drills are not ideal" for children.

[...] "Children being asked to pose as victims on the floor covered in fake blood is just pointless and can be traumatising, I can't see why that's necessary."

Source: US school shootings: Have drills gone too far?


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Farkus888 on Monday April 01 2019, @04:50PM (7 children)

    by Farkus888 (5159) on Monday April 01 2019, @04:50PM (#823136)

    I've been seeing this a lot lately. As an autistic person, I definitely understand why the LGBT community was offended by gay being the insult for everything. You show no understanding of what autism is. It is just a word you use for generic bad outsider. Sometimes people a lot like you do bad things. That is ok. There isn't any need to give them a label you aren't part of to make yourself feel better.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @05:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @05:18PM (#823149)

    I'm not sure offended is the right word here. The use of terms like that to insult people is dehumanizing and degrading. Offensive is a much broader term that includes things that aren't particularly harmful to others, simply just things that hurt their feelings or cause them to feel disrespected.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 01 2019, @10:57PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday April 01 2019, @10:57PM (#823302)

      The use of terms like that to insult people is dehumanizing and degrading.

      The dehumanizing bit seems like the key thing to me. If someone is not quite human, they're easy to hate.

  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday April 02 2019, @10:43AM (4 children)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 02 2019, @10:43AM (#823545)

    Perhaps you added a few grains of assumption to the text I wrote. Not only to the _why_ part but also to _what_ I actually wrote. I won't go into debuffing your claims one by one nor I want to share personal details about myself.

    I wish you a nice day!

    • (Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:54AM (2 children)

      by Farkus888 (5159) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:54AM (#823563)

      Perhaps I read you wrong, that is part of the whole thing. I stand by what I said in general though. I have been seeing it far too often. Maybe they are just shitty people, maybe they just didn't think about it. I had to have the gay thing explained to me so I won't judge. Today I know someone using gay as an insult is shitty. I want the same thing for autism.

      • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:05PM (1 child)

        by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:05PM (#823616)

        I support you in what you said in general, and also I fully agree with that:
        > using gay as an insult is shitty. I want the same thing for autism.

        I don't know how's it in your part of the world but around here calling someone autist is nowhere near pejorative. I mean people just don't use it when trying to offend someone, they usually go for "gay" and racist slurs. Of course there are always some bright persons, as everywhere. I remember a story when two boys were laughing to a person because he's blind... but it is so absurd so it got famous. So yeah, sorry to hear about your experiences with this kind of people.

        • (Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @07:58PM

          by Farkus888 (5159) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @07:58PM (#823762)

          It isn't my experience in the real world that is the problem. In the real world once anyone gets past the initial awkwardness they are almost always nice. I can only think of one example and they are a generally mean person anyway. It is internet comments, because internet comments are where everyone encounters the worst people they'll see all day.

    • (Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:57PM

      by Nobuddy (1626) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:57PM (#823610)

      Perhaps you came across wrong. what did you mean by "how autistic do you have to be" in your comment?