Following the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, active shooter training sessions are on the rise.
Ken Trump, a school security expert based in Ohio, calls efforts to flee or counter a gunman “high-risk.”
“Furthermore, intense fear during active shooter drills may interrupt student and staff learning, making the drills less effective,” said the Boston-based professor.ALICE contends its techniques work, citing among other examples a 2018 case in which a teacher who had taken its course wrestled to the ground a student who had entered a suburban Indianapolis middle school with two handguns. The teacher was shot but survived, and was able to secure the situation until police arrived.
Castillo — a week from graduation — was shot twice and died; more than two dozen other students in the classroom survived. “Sometimes it’s the price a person pays for saving lives. If Kendrick didn’t do something, more people would have died.”
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