REVISITING SANDY HOOK, PART II
I thought I would chat with you one more time about Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School Active Shooter who summarily and stoneheartedly slaughtered 20-some children and adults and...
View ArticleArticle 2
Geezuss. Since I last posted about the one-year anniversary of Sandy Hook, there have already been at least one deadly school shooting and several massacres or near massacres at a shopping mall or...
View ArticleTHE SCHOOL LOCK-DOWN AND THE NEXT ACTIVE SHOOTER
I don’t know for sure, but if you ask me, some obsessive-compulsive, catastrophe-fixated nutboy is already plotting to score himself an arsenal of automatic weapons, maybe a Glock-19 or two, a grenade...
View ArticleKID ESCAPE, 2014 – PROTECTING CHILDREN AND TEENS!
I conducted my first Kid Escape Seminar this past Saturday (1/25/14). Kid Escape is an awesome child-survival training system that focuses, not on self-defense, but on escape and evasion methodology...
View ArticleTHE FATAL FOURTEEN
It’s been awhile since I posted, but I’ve been doing beau coup (as in, “lots and lots of”) training(s), including, incidentally, a presentation on Stopping the Active (Rampage) Shooter in Your...
View ArticleON SURVIVING AN ACTIVE SHOOTER EVENT
Maybe I shocked you, maybe not, in my last post when I wrote that active shooter, rampage events have increased by over 400 per cent since 2009. Since the turn of the century (2000), forget it....
View ArticleHear Something, See Something, Save the Day!
“Jesus, Fu** Me!” Helluva way to start a post, but, honestly, Hammer fans, those were my exact first words of the day Wednesday, June 11, upon waking up and seeing the story about a young student at an...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION MASSACRE
I think it was just after the speaker called Austin Landis to come & receive his diploma that it hit me like a javelin to the back of the head. There was, what, 500 or so kids in blue and white...
View ArticleIF THERE’S A SCHOOL, THERE WILL BE A SCHOOL SHOOTING!
Bold and disturbing words, I’m sure. And no one hopes more than I that I am wrong. That there will never be another school shooting, and somehow politicians, parents, teachers, and school...
View ArticleBITING THE BULLET!
For the last several weeks I have been consulting with a central Pennsylvania school adminstrator about how to safely and effectively manage serious aggression by students against teachers. This in...
View ArticleManaging Threats from Aggressive & Violent Children
You may have read my post on escaping and evading being bitten by a preschool child (3 to 5 years of age). Doesn’t matter. If you wish, just peruse this sight for Biting the Bullet. In that same...
View ArticleA Look at the FBI Active Shooter Study, 2013
Nothing like being the angel of bad news, but, I believe it is far worse to bury our collective heads in the sand. Meaning, here we are about a month into the school season and we haven’t had an...
View ArticleDAMMIT! REVISITING THE ACTIVE (RAGE) SHOOTER ISSUE
NOT THAT I AM SHOCKED, but, here we are, less than a month after I posted about the FBI Study concerning active shooters in America and maybe three months after I posted that, “If there is a School,...
View ArticleWOULD YOU KNOW IF A RAGE SHOOTER IS CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON?
“Could you be able to detect if a person is carrying a concealed firearm?” Not a question I think you should take lightly or pass over gently, especially if you are a student (or, even a parent of a...
View ArticleActive Shooter In Your Face – A Few Thoughts
Several things. Since an Active Shooter Event explodes – literally – in our faces in the United States about every three months, and workplace violence is becoming an all-too familiar phenomenon,...
View ArticleManaging Aggressive Students in and Outside the Classroom
(SAB CONTROLI FIGURE, since I will be conducting a DSM (Disruptive Student Management) this summer, why not discuss one of the most vexing issues teachers, administrators, security staff and others...
View ArticleSAFELY AND PROFESSIONALLY MANAGING OUT-OF-CONTROL STUDENTS
Be you a parent, sibling, teacher, administrator, security specialist, police officer, or a child care worker, more likely than not you have- or will – been confronted by a scenario involving either a...
View ArticleSAFELY AND QUICKLY SEPARATING FIGHTING STUDENTS (DSM Training Has the Answer).
It was early in the school year in a nearby school district (Bethlehem, Pa.) when a rookie Special Education teacher – with the best of intentions- stepped in between two 7th graders who were beating...
View ArticleSAFELY SEPARATING SPARRING STUDENTS, PART II
IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING MY POSTS ON KSS – and, if you have been, thank you – my most recent post was on the dangers of stepping in between fighting students with the intent of stopping a fight....
View ArticleSURVIVING AN EDGED WEAPON ATTACK IN AND OUT OF THE SCHOOL
There have been a spate of edged weapon attacks in the news in the past month or so. Attacks against police, sure, but, worse, in my mind, are attacks against teachers, security, and other students....
View Article