Texas schools tells classes to fight back

[DesertFox]

BURLESON, Texas — Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got books, pencils, legs and arms.

"Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success," said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools.

That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of among schools, and some fear it will get children killed.

But school officials in Burleson said they are drawing on the lessons learned from a string of disasters such as Columbine in 1999 and the Amish schoolhouse attack in Pennsylvania last week.

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[Wolfcounsel]

It appears to me that someone has pulled his head out of his ass finally. This chicken motion of hiding under tables has not deterred a single armed psycho. Actually, a 95 pound art teacher properly trained can bring down and immobilize a 200 pound idiot. But the more people the better.

[TechnoPrincess]

More schools need to do this sort of thing!!