What were they thinking? (Crazy idea for a school "drill")

[central scrutinizer]

It's a good thing none of the teachers were packing heat or this could have been a real tragedy.

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/29807058-75/drill-teachers-halfway-active-bazaar.html.csp

HALFWAY — Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire.

Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle’s preparation for an assault by “active shooters” who were, in reality, members of the school staff. But those few seconds left everybody plenty scared.

.......

They weren’t expecting a drill like this, and they were caught by surprise when the two men entered and began firing.

“There was some commotion,” DeCastro said.

[peace13]

1. PTSD for everyone!

This is very sad. I imagine there will be some fallout here. What were they thinking...for sure?????

[Marrah_G]

2. Idiots

[geek tragedy]

3. "What could go wrong?" nt

[Brickbat]

4. Now that they understand that this kind of shooting "can happen anywhere," what are they going to do

about it? They talk about re-evaluating their emergency plans, and that's fine. But what are they doing to reach out to people who need social services and can't get them? People who might have a scary ex-spouse who lost custody and is plotting revenge? Who feel bullied and like they have nowhere to turn? There's a lot that happens before a person picks up a gun and goes on a rampage -- what does this exercise do to ensure no one feels like a rampage is the answer?

[OldHippieChick]

5. And if one of those teachers had

a heart attack? Were they prepared for the liability? This is/was so stupid in so many ways

[arcane1]

6. Or if one of them had a gun, with real bullets.

One cannot count the number of ways this was a stupid idea.

[sakabatou]

7. The kids are going to have a lot of mental trauma

[central scrutinizer]

8. there were no kids at school that day

it was an in-service day

[sakabatou]

9. Oh.

Still, kinda stupid idea.