Even so, Mr. Hall said, “I think a bat could disarm a pistol with a nice swing.”Jon Cacchione, the president of the Millcreek teachers’ union, says it’s better than doing nothing. with that.”Matthew Exley, director of the Millcreek Township Office of Emergency Management, said in an email on Wednesday that neither his organization nor the Millcreek Township Police Department was involved in the decision by the Millcreek Township School District to provide bats to teachers. All 470 of the district’s teachers received the bats on April 2, as did teacher’s aides, administrators and building staff, Mr. Cacchione said. Last month, the superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, Pa., announced that every classroom had been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone. The Pattonville School District in Missouri is spending $4.3 million on safety and security upgrades, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2018 21:22 UTC