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Saturday 11 May 2019
‘Run, Hide, Fight’ mindset making way into U.S. schools

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Jake Ryker, who tackled
and MICHAEL MELIA a shooter at Thurston High
Associated Press School in Oregon in 1998
BALTIMORE (AP) — The ac- despite being shot in the
tions of students who died chest. Many people have
tackling gunmen at two a “warrior mindset, a hero
U.S. campuses a week mindset,” Crane said. “It’s
apart have been hailed as just, have we cultivated
heroic. At a growing num- them with some informa-
ber of schools around the tion and with some training
country, they also reflect so that when they are the
guidance to students, at first one to stand up and
least in some situations, to start moving to do some-
do what they can to disrupt thing, maybe they’re not
shootings. alone?” Educators from
A majority of school districts over 5,000 school districts
have now embraced such have received the pro-
an approach, with experts gram’s training, often from
saying educators need to certified law enforcement
give staff and students as officers, Crane said. He
many options as possible in said the program does not
the worst-case scenario. teach fighting strategies.
“In all honesty, I don’t In this March 15, 2013, file photo, participants rush out of the cafeteria after hearing gun shots Rather, it encourages peo-
know of another strategy,” during a lockdown exercise at Milford High School in Milford, Mass. ple to make noise, create
said teacher Kelly Cha- Associated Press distractions and confuse
vis, whose Rock Hill, South more of a target. thought about it on his Riley Howell, 21, died the attacker.
Carolina, school endorses At the STEM School High- own. He lunged with Cas- thwarting a shooter last Baltimore County Public
a strategy known as Avoid, lands Ranch in suburban tillo toward the gunman week at the University of Schools adopted ALICE this
Deny, Defend. “What else Denver, where student and wrestled the gun from North Carolina at Char- school year.
would you do if you did not Kendrick Castillo was killed his hand. lotte. Alert messages at If an assailant gets too
try to get away in a situa- while confronting a gun- “I don’t like the idea of that campus advised stu- close, students are told to
tion?” man on Tuesday, the running and hiding,” he dents to “Run, Hide, Fight.” grab anything and throw it
Many schools have stuck school uses a “Locks, Lights, told reporters Wednesday. There always have been and scream, with the idea
with the traditional ap- Out of Sight” protocol, ac- “There’s certain situations if students willing to take ac- being to create enough
proach of locking down cording to spokesman Gil you got to get out of it, you tion, said Greg Crane, who chaos to escape. No
classrooms and letting Rudawsky. He declined got to get out of it, but like, founded the for-profit AL- young students are told to
law enforcement confront to say whether any of the I’m not going to say, like, ICE Institute, which stands tackle or otherwise try to
the shooter, especially in school’s training for stu- cower or move out of the for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, make physical contact, but
grade-school settings. En- dents addresses whether way for somebody who’s Counter, Evacuate. He said staff members and older
couraging students or fac- they should fight an intrud- right in front of me. ... Some- he created it in 2001 based students have that option,
ulty to do otherwise, crit- er. body like that, I’m going to on what had already been Superintendent George
ics say, could make them But Brendan Bialy had fight them there.” done by students including Roberts said.q

Company comes to aid of students offered jelly sandwiches

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT sume more debt, spark- accept donations to help
Associated Press ing a public backlash and settle lunch debt, after a
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) upsetting the mayor, who local restaurant owner said
— The yogurt company asked the school commit- the district twice turned
Chobani plans to pay the tee to reconsider. It later down his offer to donate
school lunch debts of low- reversed the decision . $4,000, school board Chair-
income families with stu- The district includes 19 woman Karen Bachus said.
dents attending a district schools. Leaders are trying to find
that made headlines by About 1,650 students owed a balance between be-
announcing children who money as of last Friday, ing fiscally responsible and
owe money would get and about 70% of those ensuring all students get a
cold sunflower butter and students are not enrolled healthy, nutritious lunch,
jelly sandwiches instead of in the program for free or she said.
a hot meal, the mayor’s of- reduced price lunches, ac- Chobani, based in Nor-
fice confirmed Friday. cording to the school com- wich, New York, said the
The office of Warwick May- mittee. company is also looking
or Joseph Solomon said it is In this Jan. 16, 2018 file photo, Hamdi Ulukaya, founder, chairman The mayor’s office is trying to donate yogurt to the
coordinating with Chobani and CEO of Chobani, speaks at the National Retail Federation to plan an event to ac- schools, a spokesman said.
to accept nearly $50,000, conference in New York. cept the donation formally, Solomon and state Rep.
the amount owed by low- Associated Press spokeswoman Courtney Joseph Shekarchi, major-
income families with chil- the news broke his heart. zations that offered to do- Marciano said, and there ity leader of the Rhode Is-
dren in Warwick Public Access to nutritious food nate money to the district, has been an outpouring land House, said they want
Schools. should be a right, not a officials said. of support from across the to work with Chobani to
Chobani founder and CEO privilege, he said. Warwick Public Schools country. bring attention to food in-
Hamdi Ulukaya tweeted Chobani was but one of had said it was owed School leaders are working security among students
Thursday that as a parent, the businesses and organi- $77,000 and couldn’t as- with attorneys on a way to nationally.q