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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday April 01 2019, @11:54PM
Yes, I read about this "drill" too. It has resulted in a proposal by the teachers that there be a bill passed in Indiana prohibiting the firing of projectiles at teachers in a safety drill or training.
Is this really where we're at now in society? That you have to legislate the idea that we shouldn't fire projectiles (of any sort) at teachers... Then again, we used to have amendments that said the government couldn't search you, until nudie scans became necessary to board a plane. We used to have amendments that said you couldn't monitor private communications without a warrant... Until the NSA was just given blanket authority to do it all the time on whomever.
So yeah, I guess maybe today we have to actually instruct a law enforcement officer that -- you know, you might not want to fire (even plastic) projectiles at defenseless other people for no apparent reason other than to exercise your ego. Another article I read said that some insurance company had paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in related injuries for other "trainings" of this sort that have happened in recent years. Really?? What the hell is wrong with people?