Teachers Taught How to React During a School Shooting Scenario
Educators from school districts across Oakland County, including Birmingham, attended a large-scale active shooter training session in Waterford today.
BIRMINGHAM, MI -- Run, hide or fight. Those three actions may save your life in an active shooter situation similar to December’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CN, according to Oakland County Homeland Division officials. About 85 Oakland County school administrators, teachers and school staff — including more than a dozen from Birmingham — focused on the kind decisions one may have to make in an active shooter situation during a 2-hour training session at the Executive Office Building in Waterford Thursday. The important takeaway — react quickly. Teachers were told to have an evacuation plan prepared and as a first action to flee a bad situation, bringing their students with them, but only if it’s safe to do so. If it is …
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desertrose
9:53 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
If there is a fire extinguisher, why not spray it at the gunman first - go for the eyes. I also think teachers could, with a lot of caution, have wasp spray or high distance pepper spray. Both of those can temporarily blind an attacker from over twenty feet away. They would need to somehow be out of reach of children, but still where a teacher can get it. I think those would be safer than having … more ›