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New legislation from Ohio state Reps. Tom Young, R-Washington Township, and Andrea White, R-Kettering, would require next years class of high school freshmen to take a course on recognizing and responding to threatening situations in order to graduate. The idea for the so-called Student Protection Act came from a number of recent high school graduates as part of an extracurricular project.
Abby Purdy described how the proposal came from conversations she had with fellow Olentangy High School students Sydney Schultz and Vaidehi Patel about walking to their cars after work in the dark.
Everyone had very similar fears, and it kind of just sprouted from there, Purdy explained. We had a survey and many of the responses conveyed the same fears and we felt that self-defense would be the best way to help people feel that they have the tools to protect themselves.
Patel, Purdy and Schultz repeatedly invoked the idea of self-defense, as did the bills sponsors, but thats a bit of a misnomer. Speaking afterward, Young acknowledged they struggled with how best to describe the courses aims, but he was clear theyre not envisioning some sort of martial arts training.
No, this is not Tae Kwon Do, throwing people across a mat or anything like that, he explained. Its raising an awareness on how to prevent and then respond to an aggressive situation mentally, and perhaps a way to get out of a situation.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06/01/lawmakers-propose-new-self-defense-high-school-graduation-requirement/
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Its YOUR responsibility as school children to defend yourselves from the haters and the gun nuts were enabling!
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doc03
(35,364 posts)put them in charge of security. They could do like the army stockaids build two fences around the school about 30 feet appart, give guards orders to shoot anyone between the fences.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The lengths lawmakers will go. Better a thousand schools, concerts, days in the park, and church services be shot to pieces than one fucking gun nut be denied the weapon of his choice.
ananda
(28,876 posts)right - ee - oo