rick_pcfl wrote:
I can appreciate some of the humor in this. But would you rather the children be totally defenseless? To be honest, I don't think this is a bad idea. If a bad guy enters a room and gets pelted with 40 baseball size rocks, it might make a difference. The alternative is no defense at all. I'll take something over nothing.
I'd contend that terror makes people freeze. Think "deer in the headlights". In order to overcome that, one has to wargame scenarios over and over again. That way the reptile brain, trained to respond by repetition and w/o conscious thought, can take over and execute. So sure, the rocks idea could potentially work, but the classroom would have to practice the heck out of it. Which would be a lot of fun. Also good for the contractor that will be replacing the door each week.
Spending 10min each day flinging rocks, just as hard as you possibly can, at the classroom door could work out all sorts of excess energy out of the system. The boys would have a blast. ADHD cases, being defined by behaviors historically listed as "normal boy foolishness", might plummet.
That said, our boys being soccer oriented don't have much experience throwing things. Much to my chagrin, they throw like girls, no offense to the fairer sex intended. Us playing catch, once every couple months, isn't enough to fix that. The folks behind this stone idea probably remember childhoods where they were throwing things all the time and every kid played on the local little league teams. Most every kid, in the 60s and 70s, could throw a baseball from the left field fence to the catcher. Heck, us kids used to have pinecone fights that could last for hours. No Nerfguns back then. Couldn't have BB gun wars if there were adults in the area. Adults were full of anxieties.
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