Winnie the Pooh book teaches Texas kids how to survive school shootings: report

[Initech]

Kids in Dallas, Texas were sent home from school with an unusual item in their backpacks, reported The Guardian: a book that features Winnie-the-Pooh explaining how to survive school shootings.

"Parents and teachers in the Dallas area have expressed alarm and concern that the Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, has been sent home in the backpacks of children in pre-kindergarten and elementary classes," reported Ed Pilkington. "The book features the honey-loving bear created by AA Milne and illustrator EH Shepard instructing kids about how to react to a mass shooting. "

"The subtitle to the Stay Safe book is: 'If there is danger, let Winnie-the-Pooh and his Crew show you what to do: Run Hide Fight,'" said the report. "Run, hide, fight are the tactics advised by the FBI 'should the unthinkable occur.' Inside pages of the book, featuring other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood, tell kids: 'If it is safe to get away, we should RUN like Rabbit instead of stay … If danger is near, do not fear, HIDE like Pooh does until the police appear.' The 'hide' page has a drawing of Pooh burying his head in a pot of honey."

The next page shows Kanga and Roo wearing boxing gloves, with the message, “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.”
https://www.rawstory.com/winnie-the-pooh-school-shooting/

What. The. Actual. Fuck???? Holy shit, conservatives have lost their damn minds. If I was a parent I'd definitely be raising some serious hell about this. Fuck the NRA and the GOP.

[caballojm]

1. To be fair

Republicans have their hands full protecting children from the dangers of learning about actual history, learning to accept and respect others, science, math, reading books, reading poetry, and (gasp!) "the gays" and drag shows - and so on and so on and so on ...

[hibbing]

2. 'should the unthinkable occur.'

Uh....not unthinkable to anyone who has been awake the last decade. It is more of a waiting for when it will happen in my own community, not if. So yeah, let's get those kids thinking the same way since apparently, absolutely nothing can be done about it.

Peace

[Initech]

7. Yeah that was the most insane part!

We've been told that we can't do anything to actually curb gun violence and we have to live with it. It's totally thinkable to anyone who's been paying attention. The NRA has made us all sitting ducks. It can happen to anyone at anytime and anywhere. And the fucking MAGA conspiracy theorist shitheads in Congress are actually trying to make the problem worse by lifting literally any gun laws. What could possibly go wrong? Just... ahh!!!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. A.A. Milne is probably turning over in his grave.

And idiots like Empty Greene bray about “protecting children’s’ innocence.”

[Initech]

8. They'll protect kids from drag queens.

But the MAGA morons are perfectly OK with kids getting shot and dying, getting married, having babies, and working essentially slave labor jobs for little to no pay. But hey, priorities, am I right?

[young_at_heart]

4. How is this possible??

I feel as though I am living in the Twilight Zone......where humans are absolutely crazy or something!

[world wide wally]

5. Well,

That solves the problem

[Bayard]

6. Hide behind Piglet!

Disgraceful. Turning a well-loved story and characters into fodder for the cause, instead of passing gun legislation.