School arms students with rocks in case of shooter

A Pennsylvania school is arming their students with rocks in case of an active shooter lockdown scenario.

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Students have buckets of rocks to throw at school shooters in Pennsylvania district

By Josh Magness

jmagness@mcclatchy.com

March 23, 2018 08:25 AM

Updated 1 hour 47 minutes ago

Students in one Pennsylvania school district are armed and ready to take down a school shooter.

But they don’t have guns, Blue Mountain School District Superintendent David Helsel told state lawmakers. Instead, students at the district in Schuylkill County are equipped with five-gallon buckets of river stones that are hidden in the closet of each classroom, according to WNEP.

Teachers in the district have been taught how to evacuate in the event of a school shooting, Helsel said, but the rock plan serves as a backup.

“At one time I just had the idea of river stone, they’re the right size for hands, you can throw them very hard, ” he told WNEP, “and they will create or cause pain, which can distract.”
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