A Pennsylvania superintendent announced Tuesday that his school district would be arming teachers with miniature baseball bats as a safety measure to fight against any school shooters.
Millcreek School District Superintendent William Hall said that the 500 teachers in the district would be given training on how to react in case of a school shooting as well as be given 16-inch bats. "We passed them out, with the goal being we wanted every room to have one of these," Hall told WICU. "Unfortunately, we're in a day and age where one might need to use them to protect ourselves and our kids."
Hall told the outlet that bats would be used as a “last resort” for teachers in case of active shooting situation. However, parents of the district of more than 7,000 students have an issue with the proposed strategy. "It's not going to make some shooter stop and say, 'Hey, I probably shouldn't go in and do this,'" Jo Ellen Barish, a PTA president explained. "The people who do these things aren't planning on getting away alive. It's not like they have a fear of being hurt,"
In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, school districts across the country have proposed stricter safety protocols. While Pennsylvania law prohibits weapons on school grounds, last month a rural school district in the state said they would place buckets of river rocks in classrooms to combat school shooters.
Source: nbcnews.com
