ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district has given its teachers small wooden baseball bats as a reminder to fight a school shooter with any weapon available should other options fail.
The superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District says the 16-inch bats are primarily symbolic, but the district did want to have a “consistent tool” for all teachers should they need to fight an attacker.
Superintendent William Hall tells the Erie Times-News the district’s revised school shooting response plan puts more emphasis on options other than “hiding and waiting.” The president of the local teachers union says he supports the move.
The district outside of Erie also had added additional security measures at school entrances.
Last month, another Pennsylvania district said it was arming teachers and students with buckets of rocks.
Well OK, and how soon will these mini bats be used for something other than protecting students from a shooter?
But are they Louisville Sluggers?
Bringin’ a pillow to a knife fight 2018
Lame.
Some bright, shining day when the shooter has to stop and change magazines oftener because high-cap magazines are no longer available for military-type weapons, there might be a moment or two where that damn bat might be of some help. Or a chair, or a heavy book, or one’s fists and body weight. On a brighter, shinier day, when those kinds of guns aren’t available at all, even more so. Until then, JFC don’t make an ass of yourself. Just tell everyone “run, hide, fight” because this society won’t protect its children. Just acknowledge that reality.