Schuylkill County officials are equipping classrooms with buckets of rocks to stone mass shooters.
Dr. David Helsel made the announcement this week in Harrisburg.
WNEP reported:
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McCall.com reported:
Officials in Schuylkill County are planning to teach students to throw rocks at school shooters.
The superintendent of Blue Mountain School District testified to a state committee in Harrisburg last week that each classroom in the school has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone, according to WNEP.
“If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance to any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned,” Dr. David Helsel said to the House Education Committee in Harrisburg.
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Helsel said teachers, staff and students have had active shooter training and routinely hold evacuation drills for active shooter simulations. But in the event of a lockdown, Helsel said, students can use the bucket or rocks to throw at shooters as a last resort.
