Teachers Get Wrong Take-Away

To demonstrate what "cowering and hoping" would get them in an active shooter situation, the deputies sprayed the teachers down with airsoft guns.

The teachers learned nothing.

They're currently complaining about how it hurt and traumatized them.

To the point that the sheriff is going to stop the shooting part of the active shooter drills.

Hey, teacher, did you feel powerless?  Did it hurt?

Good.  That was supposed to teach you to do something other than cower in fear and the pain is supposed to reinforce the lesson.

Much like the gas chamber in basic.  Better to learn to use and trust your gear with CS than VX.

Better to get shot with an airsoft pellet and get a welt than to end up dead.

I want to see one of these exercises where a teacher is given an airsoft pistol the cops don't know about and see how the exercise changes.  It might change some minds.