We were asked this week not to think about school shootings like a teacher, but like a cop.
What is your plan should a shooter get in the classroom?
Hiding in the corner in the dark is okay when they are in the halls, but if they come in guns blazing, what will you do to protect the 30 kids under your protection?
I'm a true Walter Mitty, but daydreaming about how we are going to attack a shooter and get away from my classroom just isn't really what we expected when we became teachers.
My game plan at the moment is the following: I have my desk wedged around a window (we're on second story). We'll shut off the lights, and students will gather around behind my desk. We'll toss over several desks in front of my classroom door. I'll open my closet door (which will block the view of my classroom from the hallway), and I will hide behind my closet door. If someone gets through our locked classroom door, the kids will immediately open the window and start jumping out to the ground (hoping they don't break legs or arms) and they will run to "Bunker Hill" a place we already designated to meet, and I will use broomsticks, or anything I can get my hands on in the closet to attack the shooter in the doorway from my hidden spot. After that, it's all in God's hands, right?
Now, after I go over the plan with the kids, I just have to pray that we never to use this.