Honestly, even if there WAS a “take off your pants” part of the drill, I don’t care who the fuck sees my underwear, if it’s gonna stop a gunman trying to kill my friends, I’ll get buck-ass naked in front of the whole school. Like, think about what’s ACTUALLY important here, y’know?

“If there’s a real intruder...we don’t then start saying, ‘You go to the boys’ room; you go the girls’ room,’ ” Kizner told the Free-Lance Star. “We would say, ‘Go to the nearest secured room.’ ”

I honestly don’t get it. Get all the kids in a place that has a locked door no matter what their gender. What do they think is going to happen? The kids will start having sex with each other? They’ll be terrified and trying not to get shot. America, I love a lot of you, but when you not only have to have school…

“Kizner said he has also personally apologized to the girl.

DOES IT FUCKING MATTER??? IT’S A FUCKING ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILL PUT HER WHERE SHE WON’T GET SHOT FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Why would they be spending time directing any kids to the “proper” rest room?! Part of the drill should be just teaching them get to where ever these save places are in a timely fashion. They shouldn’t be spending time shuffling themselves based on gender.

Oh, of course this is a CYA word salad. This whole “we didn’t know what to do” is complete bullshit.

Oh, definitely. I’m just pleased to see an actual apology instead of the “I’m sorry you were offended” bs that passes for apologies these days.

No, man, it’s cool. It’s pretty telling about the state of our country that we can’t even get to the fact that we’re more comfortable with schools doing active-shooter drills than we are common sense gun control, because the people in charge used that active-shooter drill to literally tell a trans student that she…

The superintendent apologised because that girl’s family has a great case if they chose to sue.

I fully blame the teachers, this whole bullshit about there not being a plan in place is a lie they made up to cover their asses after they used the drill to harass and belittle a trans girl.

At the beginning of the drill, teachers in one Stafford County Public School directed children to bathrooms or locker rooms closest to them, but couldn’t decide where to send the girl, who is trans.

Why is it so important to segregate students by gender in an active shooter event in the first goddamned place? 

They are teachers without guidance in a county without guidance for these issues. They were following that they were told to do.

For extra hilarity check out his early wrestling days.  I think they called him “Farooq” or something and he was a tribal african with a bone in his nose and shit.

I don’t know if he ever actually played the role before, but in my mind’s eye, John Henry always looked like Michael Clarke Duncan.

In Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History, he talks about an episode in the aftermath of Brown v Board of Ed. After schools had to be integrated, the black teachers in the (former) black schools were fired. No black teacher would be allowed to have authority over a white child. Horrifying.

IDC about Taylor Swift, but I like the fact that this voter registration spike is being attributed to her because it gives Mike Huckabee and his thunderbuddies all kinds of heartburn.

Not quite sure how a story detailing a) Heitkamp’s own strategy of leaning on Native voters, b) fucking over those same voters on the issues of greatest importance to them, and c) having to face the ensuing consequences exactly constitutes “ratfucking” so much as it does “accurately describing the situation in which…

Uhh, one of these issues was 1) the biggest N.D./S.D. story of the year and 2) very clearly a self-inflicted wound on Heitkamp’s part, and the other is the result of N.D. Dems, or any party, failing to adequately secure Native voting rights before they lost all the state houses. The Kavanaugh vote was cool and Good,…