One school district is equipping its classrooms with buckets of smooth rocks for students to use as weapons of last resort against a shooter. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)One schools superintendent has a novel way to keep his students safe from school shooters: arming them with rocks. David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education committee last week, drawing a flurry of local media coverage. In at least one school district, in Redmond, Wash., ALICE training also involved guidance for children to distract an intruder. “We’ve been trying to be proactive, just in case,” Helsel told ABC.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2018 23:20 UTC