Scary situation, but better to be safe now than sorry later…

Probably some CO scouting for the annual black bear cull.

Good job, guys.

Important that we have this protocol in place.

Isn’t it early to be culling out bears, nor is it a joking matter!

“he says that at no time were any of the students in danger”
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Uhmmm, yes they were. Thats why they were in lockdown, Duh!

Leroy, what did you want Brian to say. there is a sniper out there, and turn a manageable situation into a uncontrollable situation. Where you get every parent running to the school demanding to get their kids out, and if it really was a sniper making it go out of control way to easily. Easy to take shots at people, when you don’t look at the entire picture.

What part of not in any danger don’t you understand?

I have two grandkids at those schools, so, I am VERY happy with the precautions that were taken!

My grand kids are not there, but I am glad that they have a good protocol in place to ensure that the safest measures are in place. The worst scenario are when parents start interfering and put everyone else at a greater risk. The procedure to downplay the initial situation is best protocol.

Last year I went to an elementary school to do some repair work. The students went to the office and told the staff that there was a terrorist with a bomb in the school(perhaps because I was dressed in my usual tactical black and carrying my tools in a silver case). Fortunately the amused staff were able to set them straight. Just saying…

They are questioning the kid that reported the sighting.

Posted by: He spoke on March 7 2014 10:51 AM
Leroy, what did you want Brian to say. there is a sniper out there, and turn a manageable situation into a uncontrollable situation. Where you get every parent running to the school demanding to get their kids out, and if it really was a sniper making it go out of control way to easily. Easy to take shots at people, when you don’t look at the entire picture.
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Jethro, Peppers comments are from after the lockdown was cancelled. Maybe look at the entire picture before taking shots at others.

Dragonmaster: “Jethro, Peppers comments are from after the lockdown was cancelled. Maybe look at the entire picture before taking shots at others.”

LOL. Pot, meet kettle.

Shades of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a real possibility here. No doubt, if this happened here, our teachers and school staff would have laid down their lives to protect their students (our kids).

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/17/us/connecticut-shooting-teacher-heroism/

Now where were we? Oh yeah, back to teacher (BCTF) bashing and school support staff (CUPE) bashing.

Many coworkers lay down their lives to protect people they only know at work, pay does not determine a person’s character. Many people step up and protect other strangers on the street who appear to be in peril.

Recently people jumped into a small septic opening to save a child who fell in putting aside they own fate, they were not BCTF nor were they CUPE but just passers by hearing the mothers cries

When parents drop their kids off at school, there is a clear understanding that the safety and welfare of those kids is the “responsibility” of the school district and the teachers and staff who work at the school.

Those teachers in Connecticut laid down their lives to protect the children with whom the parents of those children’s entrusted them with their children’s lives!

There are some employment positions, not many, but some that are considered “positions of trust” and parents trust those teachers with their children’s safety and well being, it is part of their job!

So carry on with your teacher bashing!

Posted by: JohnnyBelt on March 7 2014 1:14 PM
Dragonmaster: “Jethro, Peppers comments are from after the lockdown was cancelled. Maybe look at the entire picture before taking shots at others.”

LOL. Pot, meet kettle.
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LOL, Dick meet tulips. :-)

And Dragonmaster puckers up in anticipation:-)

Sorry, Dragon, I don’t swing that way. Your lifestyle choice is your own business.

Hmmm… you send so much time down there kissing Conservative, Liberal and our Mayor & Council government’s asses, some of us must have got confused JB ;-)

guys don’t get too excited some posters like he belt and johnny spoke cant see the forest because of the trees. they said no footprints no person no gun, now they are turning their attention towards the individual who reported this, possible hoax? furthermore to cut down a teacher staff over this shows true character and class just too bad its all third class. also just because you two hate teachers hate unionized workers brings back my many years in the workforce, working long hard hours while you two powderpuffs were busy talking looking for ways to get out of work and busy polishing the bosses shoes

Uh…Dragon…Are you…uh…propositioning JB? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Seems that the safest place would be the gym, as there are no windows in most gymnasiums. Very scary to think about.

So… Let me get this straight…. It is part of the teachers collective agreement to get in front of a bullet, as well as the staff of the school like the custodian and hvac technician

I think that is full of baloney, pardon my French. Like the plane that went down in a field in Pennsylvania, it was part of the character of the people onboard that prevented further deaths – just as it was part of the teachers character in and nothing to do with collective agreements. In Columbine students were protecting other students from the mayhem to the point they became victims and true heroes of the tragedy.

I entrust the teachers and staff to protect my kids from their peers but from a gun toasting maniac? I expect them to follow protocol and do what training in cases such as lockdowns requires. Jumping in front of a bullet is above and beyond and part of each persons character whether they do or not.

Interesting opinion slinky, so lets see; are teachers heroes or are they “just doing their jobs”?

“Their actions no doubt saved lives.”

“Many have called the teachers — some of whom literally shielded children with their bodies — heroes.”

“But that’s a word the teachers themselves don’t use. “It’s just our job,” Glasgow said Tuesday.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/21/us/oklahoma-tornado-teachers/index.html

Gee, maybe there are more to these teachers than what some of you state in your hate filled comments?

Hate filled comments? Where exactly does that come from?

Oops the rest of my comment were lost due to too much research but in a nutshell please provide a link to where it is written in the collective agreements of the BCTF and the CUPE locals that they are required as part of the job to act as human shields for ‘our’ children.

Do a little research on Canadian school shootings and aside from Ecole Polytechnique the two second place death tolls were actually committed by a teacher and an associate professor. The Quebec shooting has in fact provided schools and police forces with protocol such as lockdowns which have been credited to preventing any further massacres from happening to date even though there have been other ‘attempts’. In 2004 a school teacher was killed in a shooting in which her husband was later charged. Read the Dawson College shooting report, not all teachers and faculty are so eager to jump in front of a gun, like I wrote before – the character of the person in the vicinity of the perp determines whether they are a ‘hero’ to others. Maybe that is what you consider the hate filled comment

The hate filled comments come from the news story titled “Teachers vote 89 percent in favour of strike” just before the “Friday Free for All”.

So far I have shown a number of examples where teachers have risked their lives to save their students, you turn slinky, show me the stories and examples where teachers have ran away from gun men, or tornados, or any other threat to their students, leaving them to die.

I never commented on “teachers vote 89 percent in favour of a strike” just so’s you know, never even read it.

Did you check out the Dawson College shooting?

I didn’t see any arrows to the collective agreements in your last post, you seem to be avoiding that.

You seem to be somewhat drawn to teachers risking their lives to protect students, maybe your anger has put blinders on but nowhere have I said they have never done it (aside from the Dawson College incident). Protocol is lockdown and group all the kids together in a secluded spot in the classroom or the like, that is their job in the situation. Those that chose to jump in front of or try to take down the perp are doing it by their character, not by something writing down.

So in the CNN tornado story where the teacher said; “they were just doing their job”, is not to be believed? Oh… right you acknowledged it was American and wanted a “Canadian” example. Umm,,, I though teachers were teachers where ever they worked?

Even your example of “protocol lockdown and group all the kids together in the classroom and the like, that is their job in the situation”. So if the gun man breaks down that classroom door, what does the teacher do? … Hey you found us, please don’t hurt me, but here are the children, go for it????!!!!

Your train of tough on this matter is absurd, and your defence of it is becoming a bit comical. Kind of funny and entertaining though.

I don’t want a Canadian example, I asked for where it states in CUPE and BCTF collective agreements that they are to act as human shields.

I don’t know the exact protocol for lockdown but I assume the teachers performed it. You wanted an example of teachers not acting like human shields and I provided one, we are in Canada so I looked up Canadian school shootings, sue me. Two of the top 3 school shootings were performed by the educator, you can sue me for bringing that up too.

Many people put other lives ahead of their own, this is not reserved for teachers only, as predicated by the Sept 11 example I stated earlier, not the only example but one that easily comes to mind. You can add that to your lawsuit.