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22. ALICE training

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #20)

Thu Mar 21, 2019, 03:19 PM

Mar 2019

encourages students and teachers to be proactive in their response to an active shooter and teaches tactics that include rushing a shooter in some situations.

Thousands of schools across the country, including many in Indiana, are using ALICE already. Shooting teachers with plastic pellets is not typically part of the training.

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What the hell??????? Miguel M Mar 2019 #2

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People are just so fucking dumb sometimes Blues Heron Mar 2019 #4

Not dumb, sadistic. NT enough Mar 2019 #24

Also, dumb. Iggo Mar 2019 #27

I have had to endure some stupid ideas Generic Other Mar 2019 #6

Seriously? MissB Mar 2019 #7

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For those at work who can't read tweets... FiveGoodMen Mar 2019 #9

OMG this is disgusting Generic Other Mar 2019 #16

What, exactly, is the goal of this exercise? WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #10

How to die quietly? MissB Mar 2019 #13

The teachers are supposed to attack the attackers Generic Other Mar 2019 #17

to intimidate public employees DBoon Mar 2019 #26

+1 area51 Mar 2019 #34

as it always is -- to make a profit Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #29

Knowing how to get shot is a useful skill in NRAmerica Turbineguy Mar 2019 #11

Those MRkers would be paying my PTSD-related damages for DECADES. Maru Kitteh Mar 2019 #12

I suspect most teachers have the same reaction Generic Other Mar 2019 #14

Teachers shot with plastic pellets during active shooter training struggle4progress Mar 2019 #15

In other words Generic Other Mar 2019 #21

I wonder who can spell "sue them for battery"? struggle4progress Mar 2019 #25

Teachers shot repeatedly with airsoft guns struggle4progress Mar 2019 #18

Teachers Shot With Plastic Pellets struggle4progress Mar 2019 #19

WTF? MineralMan Mar 2019 #20

ALICE training Generic Other Mar 2019 #22

Active Shooter Drills Don't Really Prepare People, But They Do Make Them Cry struggle4progress Mar 2019 #23

Well no SHIT. Who could have seen that coming? A traumatic event causes trauma? Maru Kitteh Mar 2019 #28

looks like justification to kick the shit out of some fake shooters Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #30

"I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self-defense!" struggle4progress Mar 2019 #32

that's it exactly! Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #35

Sue them. Sue everybody even remotely involved with this. nolabear Mar 2019 #31

+ struggle4progress Mar 2019 #33