{"id":1437,"date":"2007-05-14T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-05-15T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T04:40:53","slug":"beyond_stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I&#8217;m the guy who thinks that we need to get kids thinking about how to react to horribly bad events &#8211; including school shooters &#8211; and I&#8217;d fire the clowns who initiated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18645623\/\" target=\"browser\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A tactical trainer who did something like that would be justifiably put out of business. May I suggest that other assistant principals who think that training is a good idea &#8211; which is the one thing Mr. Bartch ought to get credit for as he faces his well-deserved discipline and firing &#8211; go out and talk to people who teach this stuff for a living. IMPACT, and of the major shooting schools, or even local police (although they will by policy have to be very restrained in what they suggest).<\/p>\n<p>Stupid, stupid, stupid. No excuse imaginable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school runs a mock attack on 6th grade students. Without telling them it&#8217;s coming. Armed Liberal is unimpressed, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}