OT Student Invents Bulletproof Wall For Classrooms

[Chris Craig]

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/14-old-in...-students-081605860--abc-news-topstories.html

A 14 year old student invented a fold out bulletproof wall for students to hide behind in the invent of a school shooting. It's a good idea, though it may be hard to move desks and chairs out of the way fast enough to open it.





Why aren't classroom walls and doors bulletproof already?

 

[riverman]

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/14-old-in...-students-081605860--abc-news-topstories.html

A 14 year old student invented a fold out bulletproof wall for students to hide behind in the invent of a school shooting. It's a good idea, though it may be hard to move desks and chairs out of the way fast enough to open it.

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Why aren't classroom walls and doors bulletproof already?

money

 

[CupWizier]

money

but, but but can't we get Mexico to pay for the wall?

 

[Lanny]

money

That's a poor excuse. Children are our most valuable resource, even more valuable than our soldiers.

 

[riverman]

That's a poor excuse. Children are our most valuable resource, even more valuable than our soldiers.

didn't say it as an excuse...schools can hardly keep their budgets to complete a school year as it is...fact...money is the reason they don't have bullet proof walls right now...also why we don't all have bullet proof cars....I'm not disagreeing that it could help...I'm saying the money is just not there..computers are needed in schools too...thanks to Bill Gates our local small school and library have computers from the Gates foundation...maybe the NRA could bulletproof our schools but the tax levy for public schools sure won't afford to do it. Good to see a student using original thought to come up with the idea though.

 

[Chris Craig]

That's a poor excuse. Children are our most valuable resource, even more valuable than our soldiers.

This. Children are our future. Instead of investing in them we disenfranchise them. We gamble with our future. Not a good gamble.

 

[Chris Craig]

didn't say it as an excuse...schools can hardly keep their budgets to complete a school year as it is...fact...money is the reason they don't have bullet proof walls right now...also why we don't all have bullet proof cars....I'm not disagreeing that it could help...I'm saying the money is just not there..computers are needed in schools too...thanks to Bill Gates our local small school and library have computers from the Gates foundation...maybe the NRA could bulletproof our schools but the tax levy for public schools sure won't afford to do it. Good to see a student using original thought to come up with the idea though.

That'd be good publicity about now for the NRA. Yeah education is way underfunded. With most of the budget going to the military there is little for much else. I understand the need to protect our country but what good does that do if our country has no future. It has become more and more apparent the leaders of our country and the corporations that run everything don't see our children as our future. Sad

 

[Lanny]

didn't say it as an excuse...schools can hardly keep their budgets to complete a school year as it is...fact...money is the reason they don't have bullet proof walls right now...also why we don't all have bullet proof cars....I'm not disagreeing that it could help...I'm saying the money is just not there..computers are needed in schools too...thanks to Bill Gates our local small school and library have computers from the Gates foundation...maybe the NRA could bulletproof our schools but the tax levy for public schools sure won't afford to do it. Good to see a student using original thought to come up with the idea though.

Yeah, you meant it as cheap ass far Right wingers' excuse since they'll never vote for anything for public schools. They'd figure on installing such walls in schools that teach Creationism except they figure they don't need them. That's what I was responding to, not you.

This raises a whole new subject. Why don't we fund schools nationally so we can guarantee a more equal education for all?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Schools and teachers are an outdated concept. E-learning is the future.

The incidence of school shootings is so rare, that this is a waste of money.

 

[Lanny]

Schools and teachers are an outdated concept. E-learning is the future.

The incidence of school shootings is so rare, that this is a waste of money.

Well then, since there is less voter fraud than kids killed in school shootings, I guess you're ready to give up on voter ID. Also, I don't think there are too many killings over voter fraud.

 

[CupWizier]

Schools and teachers are an outdated concept. E-learning is the future.

The incidence of school shootings is so rare, that this is a waste of money.

RARE????? WTF do you think has been happening over the last several years. One shooting is too many.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

288 shootings since 2009. That's around 2/3 of a full year worth of shootings in less than 10 years.

 

[riverman]

Schools and teachers are an outdated concept. E-learning is the future.

The incidence of school shootings is so rare, that this is a waste of money.

I've seen plenty of kids who don't go to school and you're foolin' yourself if you think they're "E learning"...there are so many things you can't learn without schools ..like group achievements...team work...on and on....if your kids are "E" learning they'll know how to play video games...for kids without internet access..I guess they'd just be out of luck....teachers have a huge impact on how kids set goals. More often than not...parents don't ...teachers jobs are to teach kids how to learn and address their own problems ...kids roaming the streets are probably going to learn how to make meth or peddle drugs to make money or even worse. E learning is for 40 year olds that's kids have finally left home so they can get their college degrees online and still hold down a job while doing it.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

RARE????? WTF do you think has been happening over the last several years. One shooting is too many.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

288 shootings since 2009. That's around 2/3 of a full year worth of shootings in less than 10 years.

Statistically, they are extremely rare when you factor how many schools there are in the country. Its not like you go to a random school on a random day and have a good chance of getting shot. Or even a chance at all. Its a statistical anomaly.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Well then, since there is less voter fraud than kids killed in school shootings, I guess you're ready to give up on voter ID. Also, I don't think there are too many killings over voter fraud.

huh?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I've seen plenty of kids who don't go to school and you're foolin' yourself if you think they're "E learning"...there are so many things you can't learn without schools ..like group achievements...team work...on and on....if your kids are "E" learning they'll know how to play video games...for kids without internet access..I guess they'd just be out of luck....teachers have a huge impact on how kids set goals. More often than not...parents don't ...teachers jobs are to teach kids how to learn and address their own problems ...kids roaming the streets are probably going to learn how to make meth or peddle drugs to make money or even worse. E learning is for 40 year olds that's kids have finally left home so they can get their college degrees online and still hold down a job while doing it.

Yeah, America's school systems totally suck ass. Let's just continue using the same BS that doesn't work.

 

[Lanny]

That'd be good publicity about now for the NRA. Yeah education is way underfunded. With most of the budget going to the military there is little for much else. I understand the need to protect our country but what good does that do if our country has no future. It has become more and more apparent the leaders of our country and the corporations that run everything don't see our children as our future. Sad

I favor a strong support for our military but it must be judicious. All of our spending must be judicious. e.g. Judicious health care spending would actually reduce overall health care costs as well as improve worker productivity since only sick people stay home from work for medical reasons. Then there's the overall social improvement. I think we ought to start with free health care for children 18 and younger. Healthy food in our schools would also improve their health. Free breakfast and lunch ought to be the norm. Then, poor kids wouldn't have the stigma of being poor when it comes to eating.

We used to have a school nurse. I wonder if any schools provide that these days. How about free shots for kids during the opening week of school? No more sick kids spreading disease.

Dear Mr. Potato Head: How about clean drinking water for all including Flint?

 

[riverman]

Yeah, America's school systems totally suck ass. Let's just continue using the same BS that doesn't work.

bullshit...worked for me and my children...if it failed you, that's on you dude. Did you go to school and do you work? Just how did the school system fail you?

 

[Lanny]

huh?

Are you actually asking me to simplify this extremely elementary statement even more?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Are you actually asking me to simplify this extremely elementary statement even more?

No, I'm just wondering why you are using such bad logic.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

bullshit...worked for me and my children...if it failed you, that's on you dude. Did you go to school and do you work?

Not failing me, failing America. The world is lapping the US and will continue to do so.

 

[riverman]

Yeah, America's school systems totally suck ass. Let's just continue using the same BS that doesn't work.

I you ever need heart surgery, be sure and find a doctor to do the procedure who's never been to school....find one who learned on youtube

 

[barfo]

That's a poor excuse. Children are our most valuable resource, even more valuable than our soldiers.

Well, technically it is cheaper to produce a new child than a new soldier, since the first is a prerequisite to the second.

Maybe we need to figure out a way to reverse the process, and turn soldiers into children.

barfo

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I you ever need heart surgery, be sure and find a doctor to do the procedure who's never been to school....find one who learned on youtube

Yes, because elementary and middle school is the same as Medical School. :MARIS61:

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Well, technically it is cheaper to produce a new child than a new soldier, since the first is a prerequisite to the second.

Maybe we need to figure out a way to reverse the process, and turn soldiers into children.

barfo

More children = more climate change.

 

[barfo]

More children = more climate change.

Correct. We need to find a way to make children consume vast quantities of greenhouse gases.

barfo

 

[riverman]

Not failing me, failing America. The world is lapping the US and will continue to do so.

that's not because of schools...they go to school every waking hour in asia...go to school after school...what's hurt our kids is ENTERTAINMENT obsession....lack of ambition. Parenting....that's where you start. I've taught in asia and in America..big difference is the way they value education and pay for tutoring …..not a lot of that here...sports and entertainment rule in America. It's purely value system based. Teachers have a national holiday in asia and are paid like bankers and doctors….here....we don't pay for talent in the teaching profession before the college level. There...they do pay for talent and respect the profession

 

[riverman]

More children = more climate change.

you changed climates when you moved to LA

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

that's not because of schools...they go to school every waking hour in asia...go to school after school...what's hurt our kids is ENTERTAINMENT obsession....lack of ambition. Parenting....that's where you start. I've taught in asia and in America..big difference is the way they value education and pay for tutoring …..not a lot of that here...sports and entertainment rule in America. It's purely value system based.

School in America is basically glorified babysitting.

 

[Lanny]

bullshit...worked for me and my children...if it failed you, that's on you dude.

Worked for many of the top electronics engineers at Tektronix, Boeing, Intel, Battelle, CH2MHill, Advanced Micro Devices and others. Everyone in my graduating class at OSU went to a public school and the computer you are using has vital components, including the Micro Processor, developed by these guys. How about the mouse you use? Developed by a guy from OSU who went to public school.

The only people I know who went to a private school are my great niece and great nephew who went to a religious school. My great niece put together a program and became the director of that program that took their brightest students and made them tutors to a public school nearby. My public high school had the highest percentage of graduates in Oregon who attended college.

The more students we divert to private schools the lower the income level of those attending public schools. This is not a good thing. Kids do better when they're surrounded by a variety of other kids. Variety of IQs, variety of races, variety of religions, variety of ethnicity, variety of income levels, all sorts of varieties.

 

[Natebishop3]

I you ever need heart surgery, be sure and find a doctor to do the procedure who's never been to school....find one who learned on youtube

There is a very big difference between public school and private schools. Is there a free medical school that I'm unaware of? I'd rather not have a doctor from that school if there is one.