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Paradise Valley Schools is moving forward with their use of ALICE training for teachers in the coming months. Companies like ALICE Training Institute Promote Extreme Drills That Are Not Supported by Research! Background: PVSchools was approached by PHX Fire to be a hub in the North East Valley for training other neighboring districts on the ALICE method. The department says they can offer this training thanks to a donation to the United Phoenix Firefighters Charities from Phoenix Suns Charities. ALICE organizers say the training provides some basic violent incident awareness and trainees will learn different techniques when it comes to lockdown, classroom security, how to distract a potential shooter, and more. But this really runs the students through a real live school shooter scenario with assailants firing soft pellet guns instead of bullets.
"Unannounced drills are harmful and misguided. And when schools focus solely on drills, it takes their attention away from the real solutions to gun violence in schools, like keeping all firearms in the home secured and passing red flag laws"- Sari Kaufman, a survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and a member of the Students Demand Action national advisory board. And she is correct.
For more read the report released Unannounced Active Shooter Drills Have No Place in Our Schools by Everytown For Gun Safety.
So far the details of student involvement are not widely known. The announcement came during a teacher-staff meeting at one of the high schools in PV, which came as a bit of a surprise to teachers. The announcement was that teachers would be trained first, with no mention of student training. but the ALICE training involves real live student training. No word if PVSchools plans to do an amended version of ALICE training - teachers only, and then teachers walk students through the steps without a live drill with guns or not.
For background -
Phoenix-area school employees to take part in active shooter training - More than 120 school employees will take place in the national ALICE training program.
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Wow Trevor, this makes me very happy my children are no longer in the k-12 public school system. I don't see any positive from this, just terrified kids, and using pellets too SMH