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VA: Can we lock down guns instead of schools?
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A few teachers and I just spent more than a half hour cooped up in a dark room with a bunch of students. Shushing the kids, keeping them quiet. What kind of class was this, you might reasonably wonder. A dark room? Silence? (Can elucidation—to have something ‘made light’—even take place in darkness?) What exactly was transpiring in this room devoid of students questioning or teachers explaining—a room where, except for the occasional giggle or sigh of impatience, everyone was deadly silent?
It was a lockdown drill. |
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Millwright66
(3/21/2015)
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Sounds like a "failure to communicate" to me. Don't know about y'all but I had to deal with "Duck and Cover" drills as a school-age youngster. And for far less logical reasons ! Kids are adaptable if presented with reasons why they're doing what's asked of them. If there's any "failure" in this concept it lies with the school administrations and teachers.
Childhood is dangerous. Children have an innate drive to explore their world. Parents need to learn/accept their children learn more by "doing" than by "seeing" or "reading". Doing provides direct tactile feedback and stimuli well-suited to short attention spans. Caring parents need to encourage exploration, but strive to forsee and advert its more lethal consequences. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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