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Hearing voices is a common experience, yet it's one that's seldom talked about.
Although the latest stats have shown that up to 12% of young people hear things, see things or sense things that other people don't, they tell us that the misinformation, fear and stigma surrounding these experiences makes it incredibly difficult for them to share what's going on and to seek support if they're struggling.
That's where we aim to help.
About Voice Collective
We launched the Voice Collective service in 2009, with the aim of building capacity within existing programs to enhance their support for children and young people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual sensory experiences, paranoia or unusual beliefs or multiplicity.
Although many children and young people who have these experiences aren't distressed by them, others describe a combination of positive, negative and neutral experiences. Some young people can find their voices or visions overwhelming, confusing, frightening or upsetting, and some struggle with feelings of powerlessness, worthlessness or hopelessness. They may be self-harming, feeling suicidal or have attempted to end their lives.
We support children and young people in distress by normalising what they're going through, reducing isolation and stigma and increasing coping skills, self-esteem and their capacity to live lives that they'll love.
We do this, predominantly, through creating opportunities for the most vulnerable and at-risk to connect, share experiences and different ways of managing them, and receive peer support. We've seen significant improvements in young people who've accessed our service, and with funding from BBC Children in Need and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation we're now able to expand our work across the UK.
Developing peer support services
We recruit staff and volunteers with personal experience of voices, visions and beliefs who provide support to children and young people by email, telephone and face-to-face. Our staff spread the important message that if you're struggling with these experiences you're not alone, and it's possible to develop ways of managing, or living alongside them.
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We're always exploring new ways of reaching children and young people where they're at, and have launched the world's first online forum dedicated to supporting voice hearers under 25 and their families, funded by Hearing the Voice at Durham University.
Our forum is moderated 365 days per year by project staff and volunteers with personal experience of voices and visions, in order to keep it feeling safe for all members. There are separate areas for under 18s, 18-25s, siblings and friends, parents and carers, and professionals, as we've learnt that everyone within a young person's family and network can benefit from receiving help and peer support.
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Eve Mundy manages the Voice Collective service at Mind in Camden, where she sets up and facilitates peer support groups in partnership with community and inpatient CAMHS & EIP services, prisons, YOIs and Youth Offending Services. She is an international trainer and speaker on youth and forensic mental health, hearing voices, self-harm and suicide.


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According to a press report, the Sindh government has released Rs25 million from the taxpayers' money for the public gathering announced by Pakistan People Party (PPP) for the purpose of security of public gatherings, which actually will be spent on arranging a jalsa (public political meeting).
Similarly, Rs25 million was provided to the Larkana District administration for the jalsa, held to commemorate the 37th death anniversary on April 4, 2016. I would like to ask about the law under which the politicians are spending taxpayers' funds on political activities. PPP, which claims is the party for the poor people of Pakistan, should not do this. It seems there is competition between PML-N leaders and PPP leaders to use public money for personal political objectives.
The head of both parties are very rich as well as their MNAs and MPAs. Why are they not contributing for their leader's jalsa? Why is the money of poor Pakistanis used without any remorse? Why are they so cruel and heartless?
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April 28, 2007 — Good Friday has been behind us for a while but these pictures of Kelly's, taken here in San Juan Cosala where we live, are still interesting. Pilgrimages are a very common feature of Mexican life that we didn't know about until we began traveling around Mexico a lot, several years ago.
Often we would see people of all ages walking along highways, seemingly miles from anywhere.
Here the trip was shorter but it's steep climbing up into the mountains behind the town. People went up this one street that leads into the mountains:
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The hit Broadway tango revue, Forever Tango, played its final performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre April 5, and reopens April 15 at the Marquis Theatre.
When the producers announced that The Beauty Queen of Leenane would move from Off-Broadway into the Walter Kerr Theatre, the press immediately began speculating where the Kerr's current tenant, Forever Tango, would move.
The answer proved to be the Marquis, where Paul Simon's The Capeman closed Mar. 28. To capitalize on weekend and tourist traffic, Tango will play a special schedule at its new home: Mon-Wed. 8 PM, with three shows on Saturday (2 PM, 6 PM & 9 PM) and two more on Sunday (3 PM & 7 PM).
Meanwhile, Martin McDonagh's dark comedy, Leenane, begins previews at the Walter Kerr April 14 for an opening April 22.
In other Forever Tango news, RCA Victor released the original cast album of the revue Feb. 24. The Argentinian dance show gave its 250th performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre Jan. 24, making it the longest running of several tango shows that have opened on Broadway in recent years. That was 51 performances more than Tango Argentino. Forever Tango opened June 16, 1997 for a limited run that was supposed to end Aug. 9, but then was extended several times before announcing an open run.
Produced by Steven Baruch, Richard Frankel, Thomas Viertel, Marc Routh, Jujamcyn and Interamerica Inc., Forever Tango offers 14 dancers, one vocalist (Carlos Morel) and an 11-piece orchestra. New and traditional Argentinean music accompanies the dances. Asked why he thought Forever Tango was such a hit with Broadway audiences, spokesperson Stephen Pitalo said, "1997 was the year of the Tango; it looks like 1998 will be, too."
"Tango is a feeling that you dance," said creator/director Luis Bravo. "A story you tell in three minutes. It's passionate, it's melancholic. It's tender, violent. You dance it with somebody -- but it's so internal, you dance it by yourself. More than just a dance, the tango is a music, a drama, a culture, a way of life." Bravo is best known as a cellist with the various international philharmonic orchestra.
Dancing this Tango are Miriam Larici & Diego DiFalco, Luis Castro & Claudia Mendoza, Carlos Gavito & Marcela Duran, Jorge Torres & Karina Piazza, Carlos Vera & Laura Marcarie, Guillermo Merlo & Cecilia Saia, Pedro Calveyra & Nora Robles, and Gabriel Ortega & Sandra Bootz, Carolina Zokalski.
Designing the show are Bravo (lighting), Argemira Affonso (costumes), Tom Craft (sound) and Jean-Luc Don Vito & Marian Torre (make-up). Lisandro Adrover serves as music director and arranger, and composed several pieces in the production.
For tickets ($30-$75) and information on Forever Tango, call (212) 239-6200.
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The constant reporting, monitoring and closing out of health and safety incidents helps to ensure workplaces are safe, occupant health is protected, and compliance with regulations is guaranteed. This can be a time-consuming task, especially for a large organisation.
Salisbury Group provides a range of services including facilities management, cleaning, engineering (mechanical and electrical), security, compliance, and a specialist energy solutions team.
Until May last year, we used a paper-based system to record health and safety incidents, accidents and near misses. The information was collated and analysed, then reports generated and reviewed to check for trends or concerns.
All organisations need to achieve a high standard of health and safety compliance, but this is particularly true of businesses responsible for managing clients' workspaces. Timely and efficient reporting and managing of incidents, accidents and near misses is critical – not just to measure the provider's health and safety performance, but to acquire information that can be used to reduce risk and improve overall performance and compliance.
The 'safety triangle' is a widely accepted model of the accident log ratio within an organisation. At the top is a single major injury, followed by several minor injuries, then, near the base, a much larger number of near misses – all underpinned by a much greater number of unsafe acts and conditions. At Salisbury, however, we reported a diamond rather than a triangle: very few major incidents at the top, numerous minors in the middle, then a tapering off with just a few near misses.
Our paper-based system of reporting had its advantages – it worked, and was familiar to staff. But compiling the safety logs and records, mining them for meaningful data and turning that knowledge into reports was very time consuming and labour intensive, and we found we were missing out on valuable information that was slipping through the net. We began to consider the idea of a technology-based solution..
Once we started to research the available risk management and incident recording technology, we became convinced the switch would help us to develop high-quality health and safety practices that could compete with the best. We were, however, surprised by how few FM companies were taking advantage of the existing technology. We established a vision of what we needed, developed an outline specification, and sought a suitable partner.
The key to choosing the right software was the ability for it to work not just on multiple platforms, but also without requiring connection to a mobile or wireless network. Salisbury Group has employees who sometimes work in areas where there is only a weak signal, or no signal at all, so this was one of the defining features of our search. It led us to LogIncident, a company with an easy-to-use product that met our needs and had an impressive track record, with the added advantage of a friendly, professional team to support us during rollout.
We particularly liked the ability to expand, change and amend the app as it stood. Rather than adapt our practices to suit a one-size-fits-all model, we were able to tailor the software to our specific requirements. For example, the standard incidents recorded by the app are 'near misses', 'minor' and 'major incidents', with a range of incident types to choose from via a drop-down menu. We deliver total FM in complex environments with a wide range of risk profiles, so we understand the significance of managing risk via the reporting of near misses. Recording and analysing near misses helps us to make improvements that lead to fewer incidents and accidents that might cause injury or damage. However, we wanted to expand the range of opportunity, so we introduced a fourth measure – 'positive intervention'.
Positive intervention reporting involves identifying a risk before it becomes an incident or near miss. It's a great way to encourage and embed a health and safety culture. Teams are motivated to take a more proactive approach to accident and incident prevention. It might be something as simple as noticing that a spill has occurred and taking the trouble to clean it up; removing a delivery from a means-of-escape corridor, or correcting someone's inappropriate use of a ladder. Whatever it is, positive intervention can be as valuable to risk management as recording near misses, and I believe it has strengthened our health and safety performance.
The app is an efficient way to record, report and analyse incidents and accidents. Anyone with a smartphone or smart tablet device can capture information quickly and easily during or immediately after an incident. The data is automatically uploaded from the device to a central database and dashboard. It can then be reviewed on a case-by-case basis or as aggregated information from combined reports. We have configured the app to record who is logging the information and where the incident took place; managers are immediately made aware of a serious incident or injury to an individual, based on defined escalation rules.
The ability to capture photos and videos of an incident and add them to a report is particularly useful, since 'a picture tells a thousand words'. Images can be annotated on the mobile device to highlight any specific issues.
After testing the app, we introduced it in three phases: first to the facilities side of the business and regional managers, then to engineers, and finally to the rest of the senior managers and other teams. We sent out introductory emails in advance, then soft copy manuals showing what each screen looks like, plus a list of FAQs. Staff were asked to use the app for real within the first week to help them become quickly accustomed to it.
The results so far have been impressive. The app is intuitive and simple to use. After four weeks of running it in parallel with the existing system, we were able to dispense with paper reporting completely. The whole company now uses the new app. Overall, we estimate that the switch has halved the time our administrators spend on accident reporting. The real impact, however, will be seen in a few months' time, when we will measure our health and safety performance in relation to the 'accident triangle', and in comparison to the equivalent period in previous years.
We will continue to work with LogIncident on improving the capture and analysis of data, and also on ways to use the app in the investigation of both individual incidents and aggregated data. We believe the data, dashboard and communication features can play a role in helping us to identify the root and underlying causes of incidents – and avoid them in future.


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One of Donald Trump's first acts as President was to pull out of TPP
Cecilia Malmstrom said: "Mr Trump had set an international protectionist spiral into motion and his actions could have very grave consequences for society in general. Consumers will be the hardest hit by his protectionist policies."
Mrs Malmstrom said that protectionism was a "very bad idea" that would only bring "short-term relief".
She added Mr Trump's decision to turn inward and withdraw the US from the TPP would have a "devastating effect" on the global economy.
She said: "Mr Trump is what we call a 'deal maker'. He believes that you are either a winner or a loser.
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"Everyone, including the US, has benefited from this deal, which keeps countries in check and helps make sure that everyone is playing by the same rules."
Mrs Malmstrom also addressed concerns the US president was preparing to scrap the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with Europe.
She said: "We will survive without the US. In fact, we are already moving forward without them."
Mrs Malmstom claims the EU is already taking steps to move on without the USA
The EU's trade chief also commented on the looming spectre of Brexit, and confirmed that Britain would not be able to strike separate trade deals with individual member states or with non-EU countries until it had "formally left the Brussels bloc".
She said: "They're putting out feelers, which is perfectly normal. But British officials will soon realise that negotiating deals as a bloc is a lot easier than having to strike out on your own."


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The dojo we currently have is a result of the vision of our Shihan coupled with a lot of work. It was an old auto parts store when we took it over. Practice was put on hold. Truckloads of junk were removed. Walls were built, paint applied, floors scrubbed. From where we started, it is a amazing transformation.
If I arrive early at the dojo, entering the dim and silent building feels special, like entering a grotto or a church. But it is when the class has gathered and bowed in that the dojo comes alive. I found a poem on the Bermuda Aikikai site that reflected how I feel.
The Dojo
A place where the Way of Aikido is practised.
A place for forging the body and spirit.
A place for enlightenment.
A dojo is not a gym for mere "working out".
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The Concept
The Aerox is a low-altitude jet-powered flying recreational vehicle capable of speeds over 100 mph with 60 minutes of autonomy.
The Background
Today it's possible to fly for short periods of time with all sorts of propulsion systems. The Aerox was inspired by the Flyboard Air, a compact personal aerial vehicle invented by Franky Zapata that uses jet thrusters. I tried to imagine the future of ATVs based on his technical exploit, and the Aerox concept is the result.
How It Works
The Aerox would be the size of a sports quad. It would be capable of carrying a 200-pound pilot safely with enough fuel to fly for an hour. The vehicle would be powered by 3 variable jet thrusters, each capable of producing 200 pounds of thrust. There would be two jets in the front and one in the back to improve forward momentum.
Each jet would be able to tilt using precise electric solenoids to optimize control during all parts of the flight. To feed the jet engines, the Aerox would be equipped with two pressurized fuel tanks located inside its frame. Lateral jet nozzles would reduce roll, making small corrections when necessary. The computerized flight system would stabilize the vehicle automatically every microsecond, although the pilot would need to be trained to properly control the Aerox and get used to its movements.
This 'flying ATV' would have retractable wheels to land at a very low speed and roll a little when touching down. Small wings made of carbon fiber (not shown) could be added on the sides of the fuselage to provide additional lift during forward flight.
Airbags could be added to protect the pilot and passenger. The vehicle's speed could be limited if necessary, and the flight altitude could also be topped (e.g. 15 mph at 25 feet). Of course, these parameters could change depending on the customer's requirements and tolerance for risk or state regulations.
What It's Used For
The Aerox could be used as a recreational vehicle to fly over fields, lakes, and forests. The jet exhausts are quite loud currently, so it probably wouldn't be tolerated close to populated areas. This vehicle could also be used for search and rescue operations since it could be brought rapidly in a pick-up truck and deployed in less than 3 minutes.
The Aerox concept was imagined in August 2018 by Charles Bombardier and the images were produced by Ashish Thulkar, an Industrial Designer from Bangalore, India. Ashish graduated with a master's degree in design from the Indian Institute of Science. He currently works as a freelance vehicle designer in Mumbai, India.


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This is another theme project I was apart of that turned out exceptionally well. Until a firmware update caused it to crash @ 1080p*
*The RAF engine on the PS3 is pretty finicky, buggy, and limited and there's no access to the source from our end. Its not a movie player, its actually a mini game engine. It allows for 10% of the CPU to be used by the RAF engine, and the moment you go over 10%, it just shuts off. Many of these themes ride the 10% line pretty close when the themes runs at 1080p.
After this theme shipped there was a firmware update for the Ps3 that used up a bit more of the CPU than before in the background, and as a result the theme would turn off at 1080p.


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The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Case Study focuses on key Canadian LGBT2Q films made between 1984 and the early 2000s that lay dormant in our collection. We have identified this time period in the collection due to its current inaccessibility; seminal queer works in the collection from this period exist solely on celluloid or outdated video formats. This reflects the influx of affordable technology that became available to queer artists in the 80s and 90s, however, the rapid obsolescence of these formats in the early 2000s has made this era of our LGBT2Q collection elusive to scholars, programmers and the public.
Our Case Study will help CFMDC assess the vulnerability of our collection, support research and artistic collaboration, and with the assistance of A/CA partnership organizations digitize seminal Canadian LGBT2Q films and related paper ephemera (documents, photographs, etc.).
Research Questions:
How will these films open up the ways in which the LGBT2Q community historicizes themselves in the era of technology and retroviral drugs?
What do these films reveal about LGBT2Q histories that extend beyond the narrative of HIV/AIDS memorialization or queer confessional films?
Priority Areas:
Safeguarding celluloid film for continued distribution and exhibition
Digitizing to reduce wear and tear, reduce barriers of access, and develop audiences
Creating lasting partnerships with organizations, scholars, and future researchers
Participating in the development of policy and best practices for community archives
Policy development for the preservation of Canadian moving arts heritage
Educational programming and new audience development for Canadian LGBT2Q film and for works on celluloid
Expanding the history of LGBT2Q communities and the inclusion of voices through oral history interviews
The creation of new work by commissioned artists and researchers
About CFMDC
Established in 1967, CFMDC is a not-for-profit, non-commercial media arts distributor that specializes in independent, artist made moving images including works from historically underrepresented communities. We advocate for a holistic understanding of production, distribution and exhibition that prioritizes artist rights, accessibility and the creation of new audiences through education and critical thinking. We have one of the most important collections of artist-made moving image on film in Canada and have recently moved into a facility with a specially designed space for our 16mm, 35mm and (s)8mm collection.
Land Acknowledgement
Our territorial acknowledgment is meant to stand as a first step towards reflecting on our existence on stolen lands and our commitment to better understanding the complex and varied histories of this land, the territories of the Anishanaabe, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudensosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, the Cree and any other Nation who cared for the land (acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded).
We accept that acknowledgment in this way doesn't end here and is a living statement open to discussion and change. We intend this Territorial Acknowledgement to demonstrate our commitment to continued awareness, reflection, and establishing reciprocal relations. Therefore, we do not intend this statement to signify closure and acceptance of the continued structural conditions of settler colonialism.
The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Toronto which is covered by Treaty 13, a treaty signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge the 'Dish' With One Spoon treaty that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario and is between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.
We also acknowledge the Treaty of Niagara as a founding moment of constitutional relations between Indigenous Nations and the colonial Nation as an important part of Canada's history and should be respected as part of a Nation to Nation relationship
We reference these recent treaties and agreements of this land that is today called Toronto to acknowledge the responsibility of settlers. Importantly, we remain cognizant that the history of Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island is thousands of years old and that communities and territories extend beyond colonial legal boundaries and that there were systems of sharing and negotiations between nations through their own diplomatic and legal systems.
This acknowledgment is a first step in the ongoing process of decolonization. Compelling us, our settler colonial members and community members, to further understand our obligations to the Nations of these territories and the concrete treaties that are part of the long history on Turtle Island.
Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community and on this territory.
As part of CFMDC's participation in the Archives / Counter Archives project we will work in the spirit of the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Report; Particularly Recommendations for Museums and Archives and Recommendations for Media and Reconciliation. We also work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. And as a media arts organization and member of the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) we would like to acknowledge and support the incredible work of National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC).
Genne Speers
Genne Speers is the Deputy Director of the CFMDC, one of Canada's oldest artist run centres founded in 1967. The CFMDC is one of four member organizations of TMAC (Toronto Media Arts Centre). She is an advisory member of the TMAC board and serves on the boards of the Media Arts Network of Ontario and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. Genne holds a Masters of Cinema and Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia and is a PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her current research concerns aerial images of violence and the interpretation and translation of instrumental aerial images within the context of the archive.
Jesse Brossoit
Jesse Brossoit holds a Master of Arts in Film Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University. He has previously worked on cataloguing and archiving film collections for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, and is currently the Distribution Coordinator for CFMDC.
Laura Horak
Laura Horak investigates the history of transgender and gender-nonconforming film and media in the United States and Canada, and the history of sexuality in U.S. and Scandinavian cinema. Supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Horak is researching the history of trans, Two-Spirit, and gender-nonconforming filmmaking in Canada and the United States, and creating a pilot online database to promote these filmmakers.
She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers University Press, 2016), co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana University Press, 2014), and Unwatchable (Rutgers University Press, January 2019). She also co-edited a special issue of Somatechnics on trans cinematic bodies. She regularly curates film screenings in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
Julianne Pidduck
Julianne Pidduck is associate professor in the Communication department at the Université de Montréal. Her research explores representations of gender and sexuality through the moving image, and more broadly across mediated public discourse. Author of Contemporary Costume Film (2004), she has published widely in Canadian and international academic journals. Her current project, Shadowplay and Afterimages, examines LGBTQ2+ produced film, video, and photography in Montréal from the 1950s until the 1990s as an archive of LGBTQ2+ lives and experience. As part of this project, she recently edited a special section of the online journal Jump Cut, returning to mythic Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra in light of the 2016 allegations of pedophilia. Member of the core group of Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project, she is presently co-curating an installation exploring 1970s Montréal lesbian bar culture and social life entitled, After Hours at Madame Arthur, to take place at Montréal's Never Apart Centre from June-September 2019.
Thomas Waugh
Born 1948, London, Ontario. Graduate of Guelph Collegiate, Western University, and Columbia University. Teacher, programmer, writer, critic, activist, swimmer, cyclist, cook, pianist, and sauna aficionado. Retired in 2017 after 41 years teaching film studies and sexuality/queer studies at Concordia University.
Author, compiler, or editor of 14 books, the most recent being Confess: Constructing the Self in Media and the Arts within the Third Sexual Revolution (co-edited with Brandon Arroyo, McGill Queen's University Press, 2019).
Co-editor with Matthew Hays of 19-book series Queer Film Classics (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver 2008-2019).
Winner of SCMS Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award (Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2017) for the monograph The Conscience of Cinema: The Work of Joris Ivens, 1912-1989 (Amsterdam University Press). Founder of Concordia AIDS Project/Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS (1993-2017), and of Queer Media Database Canada Quebec (2006+).
Visiting Professor, Film Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (2018-19).


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Next I clipped it and stripped it,
Formatted and edited,
Cutted it, tutted it,
Cleaned and themed,
Bolded the words
and chose a font,
tried to decide which style I want
Spell check,
High tech
Heads a wreck!
And Yet....
I think it's ready!
Ready to be unleashed on the World Wide Web. Now all that's left is to hit the button, the one that says 'publish'. And my words will be out there for all to see. A click away from a billion pairs of eyes.
My finger hovers for just a moment, and then I press it. It's out there!
I brace myself, for the impending criticisms, whilst mentally rehearsing modest acknowledgements to the imminent applause.
Reads: 0
I decide to play the part of reader. I'm not sure about the title, is it catchy enough? I change it.
I scrutinise through other eyes, change a word, is the message heard?
I should leave it now. Do something else.
Reads: 1
I have an audience! Yet no response. Did they like it? Did they hate it? Why don't they say?
I ask myself what they want, and I write again. It doesn't feel right. Not like it usually does.
Who am I writing for? An abyss of unseen faces, glaring expectantly from beyond the darkness.
Reads 3:
Suddenly I find my freedom. Nobody is listening! I can speak openly. That feels natural. Writing, in it's most organic form, does not, after all, desire to be read. It only demands to be written.
The value of being unheard, is that there is nobody to impress, only truth to be spoken.
So I concentrate on speaking my truth, just like I always did. It's hard to ignore the imagined responses of a theoretical audience, so critical. Impossible to please!
I encourage my heart to hold the pen more tightly, hush my nagging brain. I might begin to sound insane, but at least it is relatable, authentic.
"You've got to sing like you don't need the money
Love like you'll never get hurt
You've got to dance like nobody's watchin'
It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work." (Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart)
We can all recognise the value of this advice. Because fear will never guide us to our true calling.
True beauty, in art, creation, all that we do, and all that we say, comes from a place of love. When our hearts are free, expression is pure.
So I can only hope that nobody will read this, or rather, hope to write, as though they wont.


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The greenway will link residents and visitors to downtown Mt. Holly, the US Whitewater Center in Mecklenburg County to the south, and the North Carolina State Educational Forest to the north. This greenway project is also part of the proposed 500 mile regional Carolina Thread Trail. Alta's role has been to prepare the master plan and develop construction documents for different phases of the trail. The first phase of trail construction started infall of 2015.


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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Securing Your Six: Teacher's Edition
Whether it's psychology, sociology, or a culture of deconstruction we fail to address what the actual problem is with the Spree Killer. Because in all frankness it is neither the before, nor the after, but the during we must contend with.
Having spent close to two decades running backgrounds, building profiles, and trying to predict what people will or won't do despite indicators to potential behavior there are no guarantees as to a "when". Let alone an "if ever" that the behavior of a solitary "known" individual will in fact act upon your predictions.
While you may possess a list of "knowns" you also have the "when's" and "where's". Given this how can we ever expect to stop some "unknown"?
You of course can not.
"You can!" cries the arm chair expert.
Last year I had a brief opportunity to be attached to a case where a woman was murdered in her home. She had been stabbed multiple (multiple) times and then set on fire. As I walked through the burned out house I couldn't help but notice her collection of books on serial killers. She had, on some level, compiled data in her head concerning the matter yet on the night she was killed she did one very basic thing. Answered the door.
Life and death are often balanced by such simplicity.
Our problem in combating the Spree Killer is that we are facing a continual and, always up hill battle by soft handed arm chair neophytes that have embedded themselves into an ideology of self-sustaining ignorance. They are far more interested in hearing about psychological pathology that may have contributed to an incident but, has no benefit in the future to saving a life....or lives.
After the atrocity at Virginia Tech I was asked by several people what would have been a viable solution to stopping Seung Hui Cho. My answer was simple: Killing him early into his attack would have solved it rather well.
Jeff Cooper, who organized, and promoted modern pistol craft once said it best when a reporter asked him, "Mr. Cooper, won't all of this violence beget violence?". In true Cooper fashion he responded "I certainly hope so".
But for every action, there is of course, an equal and opposite reaction. In the context of which we delve here that opposite reaction is to arm everyone, all the time. It will simply never happen. Base it on the given variances of both law and regional political ideals. There is also the consideration that a fighter, the gun does not make.
A statement true for a variety of reasons.
More realistically based is what can one individual, one teacher, one principal, do against a psychopath bent on the killing of as many people and children as possible? While it is quite a noble feat to lay one's body in front of a door to stop a rampaging killer there is a far better solution, even if one appears to be unarmed in the gun sense.
The solution is not in tech but, rather in history.
"History?" you think aloud.
History indeed.
Primary Education
Whether you choose to look at Columbine, Jonesboro or Sandy Hook what you are examining are attackers laying siege to a occupied establishment, both on the large scale (a school) and the small scale (the individual classroom). It is the classroom to which we are looking at defending.
One killer against One room.
Everything begins at the door. The door is a chokepoint. That narrow gap which decreases an aggressor's ability to attack, while increasing your odds for a successful defense. Everything depends upon what does or does not happen here. Therefore THE primary concern is to prevent an active shooter from gaining entry to the room. Locking a door is a problem if the door doesn't have locks. Reasoning as to why they don't is not the objective here. Creating a solution is.
Of course the prevailing thought is to push a desk against the door. A decent piece of advice on the surface, unless the door opens into the hallway instead of the classroom.
Yet access can be denied to a room without ever locking a door, provided the hallway floors are not carpeted. A simple gallon (or two) of cooking oil poured, albeit frantically, into the hallway creates a viscous barrier that denies an attacker the ability to enter.
One need not to complicate the process. Take the lid off, tip the jug over into the hallway, stomp your foot down on to it, cover the floor and shut the door.
The eye brows have raised and now come the hands...
"What about the people down the hall? What if they can't get across?" "How would the police feel about this?" "How do we get out of the room if the hall is covered with oil?"
With all do respect to law enforcement. Their problem is not your problem. Sounds harsh but doing nothing as opposed to oiling up a hallway to prevent the loss of life is far more harsher. Yet the question of getting out of room whose main entrance is now viscous bears merit.
The answer of course is simple.
In the closet where you keep that gallon (or more) of cooking oil should also be a very large bag (30lbs) of kitty litter and a sizable scoop (2-4 cups). When the time comes that you need to exfil apply with deftness and walk out on it.
Beyond oiling the floor one must how to barricade a door shut when no lock is present. If the door swings inward (into the classroom) something as simple as two or three non skid rubber door stops kicked under the door have essentially locked the door . One by itself might allow for a possible slip, two or three however work as fail safes. A door wedged shut can be kicked and shot with all the fury in the world but, that does not mean it will open.
Faced with a door that swings outward, rather than inward a very simple solution comprised of one or two six foot long 2x4s screwed together, two or three eye bolts inserted into the 2x4s, and three short steel cables looped at the end and secured at the other to the eye bolts is a quick fix.
The 2x4s lay across the bottom of the doorway overlapping each side of the door jamb by one foot or more, the looped end of the steel cables are slipped over the door knob. The key is not having slack in the cables. Something as basic as this can keep a door help shut long enough to buy time and save lives.
I get it. It's undignified. Somewhere in the closet is this six foot 2x4 with cables attached to that may rest there forever and you have to explain why if someone asks. Allow me explain this another way.
What you are doing is barricading. While you may find the idea of raw lumber and cable not exactly technologically advanced in the world of the smart phone, "tech" such as that kept cities, castles, and citadels safe for a few thousand years.While you may snub such a simple idea the question posed to you is this.
What do you have planned right now that prevents a gun man from entering your classroom and murdering everyone in it?
Life and death are just that basic. If an aggressor can not enter he can not win.
School for the blind
The prevailing winds are finally beginning to change in contending with the Spree Shooter. The 90s feel good advice of "hiding & cowering" has proven to be what the rest of us always knew. Fatal.
Much like the concept of a "lock down" with no locks fails in rather short fashion the legions of ignorant peaceniks and cowards have discovered that desk chairs and hands clasped over the back of heads do not actually stop bullets.
Not long back I spoke with a woman who had been violently abused by an ex-lover and that he kept breaking into her home and assaulting her. This, despite the fact she called the police every-time and had a restraining order. When I asked her what her course of action was when this happened she said "what do you mean?" so in plain English I asked "what-do-you-do-when-he-breaks-in?".
She hid in her bathroom or the bedroom closet. I asked her if those are places she felt most comfortable dying. The doors where cheap, the closet did not lock and she kept no weapon. Her problem was a combination of both fear and willful ignorance. Finally, after much discussion I told her that she should atleast die on her feet with some sense of dignity or... she could engage him. Offering to her that the next time he broke in not to run away from him but TO him or at the very least to the kitchen, open the knife drawer and keep the biggest knife she had in her hand and throw every steak knife, paring knife, lettuce knife and butter knife at him till he fled or died.
The smoking light had been lit so to speak.
Years of fear became a grin. "What do I do if I run out of knives?" I told her to throw pots and if he advanced through the hail of kitchenware to stab him to the point of significant discouragement brought about by pain and blood loss. Of course all of this to say that a handgun would serve her much better.
While it is safe to say that most teacher's desk will never hold a butcher's block full of knives there should be conveniently parked near one of the legs or within easy reach a fire extinguisher. It should be larger enough for the individual to use freely in all manner of speaking.
While the chemistry composition of the fire retardant inside the red can is difficult, the application for our purposes is simple. Use to fire extinguisher to engage an attacker from a distance, blinding him with the foam/powder until empty or sufficiently applied.
Then beat him with the can and take the gun from him.
Lest I depart from this particular means of defense in vague terms allow me to instruct a little more precisely.
A person blinded in any kind of situation whether accidental or intentional will instinctively lower their head and raise their hands towards the face. This is self-protecting posture. When the head lowers the neck becomes exposed, as does the back of the head. Utilizing the nozzle and trigger area of the fire extinguisher as a grip area bring the base of the can down onto the neck in hard fast blows. If the neck is not exposed or the angle is wrong use the can to attack the sides of the head and face, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, etc.
These blows should be delivered repeatedly with as much power as possible. Should the moment present itself in the course of action that the gunman can be disarmed then do so. One of course should scream "DROP THE GUN" as you bludgeon. Or take the weapon from them if the fail to comply. The gun no matter what it is relies on four fingers curled around a grip. Nothing more. If the hand does not open upon request and the weapon dropped...hit with the can.
Force x Velocity
Much like one does not want to rely upon the door wedge alone, the fire extinguisher while making for a sufficient tool to blind and labor an attacker's breathing is really only fair as an impact weapon. Fortunately the world is filled with everyday items that excel as impact weapons while allowing for reasonable excuses to be in a teacher's possession.
Call it applied science, the history of hand tools, or constructive camouflage, but there are innumerable reasons for a teacher to have a short pry bar, a claw hammer, or a two foot piece of re-bar tucked away in a closet or a drawer.
In 1835 Solymon Merrick applied for the first patent on a wrench. The tool changed the course of construction history with it's grip giving mechanical advantage by applying torque in the tightening of bolts and nuts. One combination wrench I have on my work bench measures around fifteen inches long and weighs over a pound. If someone needed to lecture on the history or use of tools, for example, a wrench such as this would be ideal, due to it's size so that people seated in the back could see it easily enough.
From a perspective of defensive use the design makes it available to gain a significant grip on one end to be swung hard and fast, while it's all steel construction ensures that blows will literally crush bone and cut skin.
Much like applying the blunt force from a fire extinguisher a hammer, crow bar, wrench or re-bar does so only better. Such items allow a good purchase on the grip handle as not to be easily taken from you, while light and fast enough to deliver wicked blows in rapid succession. A foot long pry-bar can smash against the fingers wrapped around a gun, or deliver a decisive blow to the head. If the upper arm were the only target available to a teacher defending a classroom of children from a would be mass murderer, one hand is free to fight for control of the gun while the hand gripping the steel bar can crush the humerus and the clavicle in under five seconds. Elbows can be rendered inoperable upon impact.
One must understand that it is not the attacker, the killer, the would be murderer as a whole that must be defeated. A killer is only as dangerous as his hands and brain. If you begin doing systematic damage to one or both he his forced to cease an attack.
One can not will broken bone to work.
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I know a metal shop teacher who is forbidden by school policy from carrying a pocket knife. He has access to a dizzying array of tools, not to mention the ability to forge a sword if he so desired. Apparently there is substantial hoplophobic fear towards the Case Trapper or Victorinox Spartan that can potentially lock-down an entire school. This despite the fact both designs predate the public school system.
The war on common sense not withstanding, a teacher or parent can walk into school with a birthday cake and twelve inch butcher knife and no one will bat an eye.
Throw a party and leave the knife.
When I wrote about the after math of the Virginia tech massacre I couldn't help but wonder how many young men cowered under a desk with a pocket clip sticking out from their pants pocket. A backpack in the face and a judicious use of blade would have saved countless lives.
I see the over-acted rolling of the eyes and read your mind "You expect me to take on a gunman with a claw hammer and a butcher knife?"
Here in the 21st Century where everything is climate controlled, and for many the outdoors is walking on a gravel path as opposed to blacktop; one might be surprised to learn that the North American continent was settled by way of butcher knife and tomahawk as much as it was the flintlock rifle. Modern day New York state with all of it's nannyness was fought and lost, fought and won in hand to hand combat. Because once fired if the attacker was able to close the gap before that musket was reloaded, your great great great great granddad transitioned from gun to knife and war hammer.
A solitary gunman, despite the fact that he may have the appearance of god of war, is no such thing. Incapacitating his view with a cloud of fire retardant, then launching an immediate assault upon him with a butcher knife and claw hammer will yield in lives saved.
It is not only potentially winnable it is probable.
We must remember if these socially inferior cowards like Cho or Lanza wanted a fight they would attack a police station or call 911 and wait. Instead they want helpless victimized, terrorized targets of opportunity. One should instead inflict a war upon them.
And I mean that quite sincerely.
Problem Solving
A large part of the problem is that we lose lives in these attacks because no one plans to fight.
Lock down is not a plan, and it's not a solution. It is a law enforcement procedure gone mainstream. The idea that a first floor classroom filled with children, with no lock on the door and no reasonable means of defense are simply supposed to wait for death to arrive is barbaric and sadistic.
Were I a teacher looking out at a school's football field, play ground or parking lot that was merely a two foot drop to the ground I would apply a chair to the window and encourage every child able to do so as well, and I would take my students and leave.
Left with no reasonable means of retreat, I would instead prepare to resist any siege and prepare to put my defense plan into action. The ones that were rehearsed at home, after school, and countless times in my head. Knowing it like any fire drill. Should the time arise. Implement it.
Hiding children in a closet, laying down in front of a door have the hallmarks of heroism without a doubt. Yet why no one would think to pile twenty (or more) desks and chairs on top of each other, along with every table available in front of the door is simply beyond me.
I understand. The profession is education not fighting. But there comes a point and time when lay people run out of excuses. Of course always will there be the cry for gun control, the weeping and gnashing of teeth to reduce the capacity of bullets capable of being fired from a gun, yet some of us seem to forget that people murdered each other long before someone thought up the rifle barrel and gun powder.
There is this resounding remark after every atrocity that invariably makes the rounds of "I don't want to live in a world where principals and teachers have to...."
You already do.
29 comments:
- ChrisB said...
Wasp spray is easy to keep in a desk drawer and good for blinding an attacker.
- Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:32:00 PM
"I understand. The profession is education not fighting."
If educators are absent the kind of common sense that allows them to envision fighting for their and their kids very lives, I think we need to find new educators, else our children (and therefor our future) are really screwed.
- Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:02:00 PM
- Andy said...
Consider: Soapy water can make a near frictionless surface of the typical vinyl tile used in schools. I've seen people use that method to slide nearly 100 feet (RIP the Bare Ass 500). Components are probably more innocuous, easily procured, and if clearance allows, can be deployed under the door with a funnel, allowing one to employ lock/barricade first.
- Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:01:00 PM
- knife said...
Your eloquence compels me to respond.
Excellent insights into self-defense in a classroom or other building against the spree shooter. I intent to steal and discuss these views with my future CCW classes.
It's become too easy to prattle the stock answers to this problem: better locks, new rules, armed teachers and so forth. All of these ideas have validly, but somehow seem to be incapable of being put into practice.
Core of the problem is not the absence of tools and strategy; it is the inability of some people to decide in advance to fight. I've seem both women and men who are unable to decide to fight for their lives and are willing to trust in fortune, luck, God and the timely arrival of police.
These people will not read your blog, will not search for the rare nugget of golden survival. They do not sign up for a self-defense classes or accept the invitation to shoot a handgun to determine for themselves the pros and cons. They are elementally incapable of realizing that they may have to make a choice of life or death.
Instead they elect to move through life wearing not only rose colored glasses but blinders as well. No wonder they are horrified and scared of those of us who have removed the glasses and search for answers.
One quick story and I'll return your blog to you.
When I started my current job I realized there is a small storage room with an exit to the exterior of the building connect to my lab.
Me: If there's gun fire, Don, I'm going out that exit no matter what is said on the loudspeaker. I advise you to follow me
Don: But what if there's a gun man outside waiting for us? We should hide.
End of discussion. But I'd rather be shot at while I'm running then hiding under my desk.
Stay safe…………
- Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:48:00 AM
- Tango said...
EXCELLENT! I'm a Concealed Firearm Permit instructor with a 7th grade English teacher wife who is not convinced that she should carry. This is magnificent!
- Friday, January 24, 2014 1:41:00 PM
- Firehand said...
Frank, you also have the pacifists* who insist that using violence, even to save lives of children, 'is as bad as what the criminal does.' They WILL NOT take action, and don't want anyone else to, either.
Ref barricading a door, years back I got a lesson in that. There was an abandoned old house near my grandparents(the door and window frames were still solid), and I decided to use it for a 'bad guys in the house' game. Put a can in one corner as the bad guy, and stuck a piece of 1x3" board- that turned out to be yellow pine- under the doorknob, climbed out the window, cocked my bb gun and prepared to kick in the door and shoot the can.
I got all set, stepped forward and slammed my foot into the door, and bounced backward off the porch. It took me four tries to get the damn thing open. So yeah, if you can use some 2x4s or something to lock that door, chances are the bad guy will not be able to get in.
*They're actually lying bastards, because if something happens they scream for the cops to show up and save them. And don't mind the cops having weapons to use.
- Friday, January 24, 2014 3:45:00 PM
Great to see you posting again!
- Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:36:00 PM
Most excellent article; It's certainly got me thinking of alternatives. No, the people who really need this won't be reading it, and yes, there are those who will fail or refuse to take action to the detriment of not just themselves, but others.
However, we can use these ideas as alternatives, or a springboard for discussion. This will let us show ourselves as thoughtful and flexible, rather than occupants of the one-size-fits-all gun maniac pigeonhole they put us in, in their fear. It may even save some lives in the process. The word should be spread.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2014 8:19:00 AM
- Dirk said...
This should be required reading for EVERY single teacher and school administrator in the entire country.
Your ideas for barricading the doors would cost maybe $10 per classroom. They already have fire extinguishers, just have to re-position them for effective use if needed. A few gallons of cooking oil - or even soapy water - would cost virtually nothing.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:47:00 AM
- mariner said...
Very well done!
I would add: pour some of that oil on the outside doorknob before you pour the rest of it on the floor and close the door.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:57:00 AM
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- Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:58:00 AM
- Ed and Jackie said...
I like the soapy water, very easy to keep and use. My own inspiration: steel yard stick. such as http://www.hardwareworld.com/1x36in-Steel-Ruler-pEC0QF4.aspx?src=sas and I have to say these look decidedly pointy: http://www.micromark.com/yardstick-compass,6560.html a few on the end of the stick would make a fair weapon.
- Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:53:00 PM
Middle school teacher here. One aspect of school design trends that makes defensive postures far more difficult is open classroom designs. Districts are more concerned about teachers being alone and unobserved with students than secure rooms. My current classroom (and almost all in the building) has floor to ceiling windows on the hallway side (no blinds and I am prohibited from covering them). No need for a shooter to enter, we'll be sitting ducks inside. This is a national trend in school design.
- Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:16:00 AM
- Rivrdog said...
Variation on the oiled floor: have a second jug: of water. Water on oil is several orders of magnitude slicker than oil alone.
As to the soapy water, a siped-sole boat shoe will allow traction on that.
- Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:30:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Wow. Just. Wow. This is all kinds of awesome. I have no idea who you are, but...bravo. I am viewing our kitchen knives in a new light.
- Friday, January 31, 2014 9:22:00 AM
As a dad of 2 adult daughters who live alone, I find this article very helpful. One daughter is a teacher in a major metropolitan area adjacent to an Interstate highway. At the schools she has taught at she has been through several lockdowns. Not a drill but the real deal, SWAT team and all. My wife has been through a lockdown in our daughter's classroom when she was helping for a day. I have already forwarded this information on to our daughters thinking it is helpful for personal safety tips in their apartments as well as in a classroom situation.
- Monday, February 03, 2014 1:04:00 PM
- Carl Stevenson said...
The problem is that 90+% of people in the teaching profession are leftist sheeple who reject the idea of self-defense as "barbaric."
Until being trained and armed to protect their charges is part of their certification/job description, they will, by and large, refuse and express revulsion at the thought.
Fine, let them find another occupation. I'd like my grandchildren to be looked after by custodians who can and will protect them, as i do when they are in my custody.
- Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:44:00 PM
- Unknown said...
You're advice is on target! I teach in a middle school and have a 'teacher toolbox' full of improvised defensive tools. I'm the school handyman and often get called, even by our maintenance staff, to fix stuff.
My plan mimics yours. Door wedges, Annihilator tool, five foot hoe handle minus the spade with bent metal arm still attached, fire extinguisher mounted on a book shelf, jaw bone of an ass on said self (Science), can of wasp spray, EDC - StreamLight flashlight, SAK for sharpening pencils and such. Pre-measured barricade from door to back wall consisting of two teacher desks, one table, and a computer cart.
No windows in my class so I've scouted places for students to hide as they climb the lockers through the ceiling tiles to escape and hide quietly.
Excellent idea on the slippery stuff and cat litter in the hall! Hadn't thought of that. Will have supplies ready Monday. We have one (1) resource officer with a gun. Not counting on him to save us. My class refuses to be a sitting duck/victim.
Depending on intel and timing, we're hauling ass out the nearest exit door to the woods - not cowering under desks. Moving targets are harder to hit I've found.
Awesome article and plan to share it with many!
Keep doing the stuff!
- Saturday, February 08, 2014 6:45:00 AM
- Retrovit said...
Thanks for review, it was excellent and very informative.
thank you :)
- Monday, April 28, 2014 2:44:00 AM
- alarms said...
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- Saturday, May 10, 2014 5:53:00 AM
- Bob Bacon said...
I think someone did take on the VA Tech spree shooter. He tried to tackle him from behind and died in the struggle.
- Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:48:00 PM
- Unknown said...
from Rainbow Gold
In flowing language you have succinctly put into perspective the reality of the justification for combat. I admire you for educating us to "always have a strategy", as my friend Ross advises.
Let us hope we never have to implement these practical life saving methods, but let us also give thanks for the ability to be informed and prepared thanks to your clear and do-able blueprint.
The killer has no rights - the rest of humanity has the right to live!
- Friday, June 13, 2014 5:52:00 AM
- Ori Pomerantz said...
Mostly good suggestions. But I disagree about the cooking oil. It is slippery, which is good. It is also flammable, which is bad. One bullet and it will probably catch on fire, which could kill more than a gun would.
- Friday, June 13, 2014 8:45:00 PM
- Matthew said...
Ori, You could shoot cooking oil all day long and it would never catch fire.
I know because I've shot jugs of cooking oil before and all it does is fly everywhere. w
hile it is certainly flammable.
It isn't that flammable.
Unfortunately Hollywood has imagined bullets (which are not on fire btw) doing a lot of things that they simply do not do. There is always this movie image of bullets making sparks as they hit something. The only time that actually happens is when the bullet strikes metal and even then it rarely happens. I've shot a lot of metal with pistols and rifles over the years and never seen or even heard of a bullet starting a fire.
- Saturday, June 14, 2014 3:00:00 PM
- Bob G said...
Excellent essay! I've given the teachers in my family heavy-duty stock canes (set up as crook-top walking canes). Swung with enthusiasm it would leave a mark!
- Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:32:00 PM
A few more tips:
As a teacher with 24 years experience, I have this to add.
~We fall back on routines in a crisis, so establish these with a crisis in mind.
~Only the teacher answers the (locked) door.
~Lockdown "safe" area is a commonly used favorite area, used for reading stories or whatever is appropriate to your age group. Routine should include going their quickly and silently in response to a verbal cue.
~FYI, the longer you are in lockdown, the more students have to use the restroom. Thoroughly humiliating, but natural. A little pre-planning can somewhat mitigate the humiliation.
~In addition to your excellent suggestions, I like having "paperweights," a pink kubaton "key fob" a tactical "flashlight," pocket knife and pepper spray. The fire extinguisher is the best, because it is a safety item. Several countertop cans are inexpensive and handy in any emergency.
~Gardening and ecosystem restoration are great reasons to have shovels &tc. in the classroom. Some schools might even still allow softball.
~All of our solid doors were replaced by doors with windows. If that window is ever shot out to reach in and unlock the door, that hand is going to be sorry.
~Windows that don't open are good places to have a display of large rocks for geology study. A "fire blanket" stored nearby would be useful as an improvised cover for glass shards.
~Most of all, your child's safety is your responsibility, so ask the teacher what his/her plan is for an emergency. Ask several follow-up "what if" questions. Make sure your child knows what YOU want him/her to do, and that your directions are to be followed. You will take the responsibility if the student gets in trouble.
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