If You See a Gun, Kid, Run Towards It

An elementary school in Fort Worth, Texas, is teaching kids to swarm and attack if a gunman tries to hold the school hostage.

Browne recommends students and teachers "react immediately to the sight of a gun by picking up anything and everything and throwing it at the head and body of the attacker and making as much noise as possible. Go toward him as fast as we can and bring them down."

Response Options trains students and teachers to "lock onto the attacker's limbs and use their body weight," Browne said. Everyday classroom objects, such as paperbacks and pencils, can become weapons.

"We show them they can win," he said. "The fact that someone walks into a classroom with a gun does not make them a god. Five or six seventh-grade kids and a 95-pound art teacher can basically challenge, bring down and immobilize a 200-pound man with a gun."

What a god-awful idea. I suppose it makes them feel they're teaching the kids to be brave. Maybe next they could teach the kids to fight back in a mugging?

Oh, and what's with picking on a small art teacher? I can totally hear that voice.

(via Angry Astronomer)