JUST THE OTHER DAY our district attorney responded to increasing student violence in our schools with a proclamation (printed in our local paper) that any teacher who intervenes in a fight(s) ...
Posted on April 26th, 2016 by Hammer
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Teaching, I know, is an awesome and rewarding profession. My major was secondary education and I have done some high school and college teaching. But teaching (or training, which is what ...
Posted on December 29th, 2015 by Hammer
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Okay. I admit. This is a bold claim, true. But I believe it to be attainable. Doable. You can deescalate or defuse anybody, even any scene, any time, if you ...
Posted on December 19th, 2015 by Hammer
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This is Part II of my post concerning our educational workplaces and the seemingly unending spate of ISIS-inspired massacres. In this post I thought I would talk a bit about ...
Posted on December 18th, 2015 by Hammer
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RESEARCH isn't really required here, but it helps. I stay hard-wired to the proverbial Law Enforcement Loop, so I know that in the last decade we have averaged something like 355 (active) shooting incident ...
Posted on December 3rd, 2015 by Hammer
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Friday, November 13, 2015, ISIS terrorizes Paris by almost simultaneously hitting six soft targets, slaying over 153 innocent citizens (and scores of seriously wounded, many of whom may be added to the ...
Posted on November 16th, 2015 by Hammer
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Before you dismiss the above question as, Wait a second, Hammer, no schools were attacked in the Paris Massacres of Friday the 13th, consider the following:
Every one of the five ...
Posted on November 13th, 2015 by Hammer
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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 ...
Posted on November 13th, 2015 by Hammer
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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 ...
Posted on May 21st, 2015 by Hammer
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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 ...
Posted on May 20th, 2015 by Hammer
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