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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?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Farkus888 on Monday April 01 2019, @04:50PM (7 children)
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @05:18PM (1 child)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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
Perhaps you came across wrong. what did you mean by "how autistic do you have to be" in your comment?