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Tuscaloosa Teachers
Taught to Fight Intruders

(GunReports.com) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama police have a new method for dealing with armed attackers who get inside school buildings in Tuscaloosa: They're teaching educators and students to fight back, Fox News reports.

School systems typically tell workers and students to lock every possible door and hide if an intruder enters a classroom building. But Tuscaloosa schools have started a program with city police in which employees and students are being trained to fight back if necessary.

The Tuscaloosa News reported Sunday the training centers on running, throwing things at intruders and restraining them.

Raquel Payne-Giles, principal at Paul W. Bryant High School, said the school's faculty and staff started their training this summer. She said she was surprised that the training taught them to attack an intruder.

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Comment by: ttwoodard | September 4, 2012

Unbelievable. "Teaching teachers to fight" by avoiding the one effective method used by the police and military world wide for over 500 years: the handgun. No, we'll teach them to lock doors that can be opened with a single .223 round, throw books at armed terrorists and the criminally insane, and the best advice of all: Run away! (cue Monty Python).

I'm afraid that if I ever found myself in such a class, I would suffer adverse job actions as a result of being unable to contain my mirth. Or maybe my contemptuous guffaws.

Gaviota

Comment by: Lee W | September 4, 2012

I'm kinda with you Gav, but it is a step in the right direction anyway, and beats allowing themselves to be herded into corners like sheep to be slaughtered.

Comment by: Larry L | September 6, 2012

Maybe the defenders can show boring videos and correct the intruder's grammar, aka the Roman soldiers in "Life of Brian"

Comment by: Mister E | September 6, 2012

Hey! This is a SCHOOL! Remember how the usual response to things is brainless cower-and-hide (that doesn't work)? Now we have a school fighting back! Looks like a 180° turnabout for the elite education system, and no matter how silly it may seem, it's a step in the right direction.

Comment by: KMacK | September 6, 2012

You are right Lee W it is a step in the right direction. This kind of reaction is going to put an intruder off his game similiar to an animal charging after its initially being attacked. The trouble being it being publicised by the media for all to know what may be coming at an intruder attacking a school. What is the difference with a pilot carrying and an educator carrying, they both have a morale obligation to protect their charges. Honest law abiding citizens carrying to protect our greatest resource our children, like that is ever going to be allowed.

Comment by: dogshawred | September 6, 2012

dogs, Unfortunately, I am not able to site locations, but I have read articles where teachers on some campuses are being allowed to carry in the classroom. Again, I am not able to name schools, but I do remember one was a junior high/middle school and one was a high school. Several Universities are now allowing concealed carry on campus as well.

Comment by: ajwrangler | September 6, 2012

That is good news, someone is getting smarter in our educational system Kudos to their insight and may their knowledge and example lead others to protect our children.

Comment by: dogshawred | September 6, 2012

Well, those of you who believe that this is a step in the right direction have caused me to rethink my position, and I have to agree with y'all. As I see it now, you guys are right, because a school district's leadership absolutely must take the first step in the direction of THINKING about self-defense, then IMPLEMENTING these admittedly silly first steps, long before any mention of lawful concealed carry could even be considered, much less established.

Hey, sometimes even an old dog CAN be taught! Thanks, me boyos!

Gaviota

Comment by: Lee W | September 6, 2012

I agree that this concept may be a good start, although in practice it would be of questionable value (although I do recall Sister Attila the Nun and her steel-edged Ruler of Death). It kinda figures that it came from a state that formerly flew the Stars and Bars. It sure wouldn't have come from Nebraska, where a student couldn't even sign his name at an intruder, nor from California, where the intruder would be asked politely to join hands for singing Kumbaya.

Comment by: Visigoth52 | September 7, 2012