Teachers unknowingly shot with plastic pellets during active shooter drills

The active-shooter training exercise at an Indiana elementary school in January left teachers with welts, bruises and abrasions after they were shot with plastic pellets by the local sheriff’s office conducting the session. (Photo: Rabekah Tuchscherer / Argus Leader)

The event, acknowledged in the testimony this week before state lawmakers, was confirmed by two elementary school teachers in Monticello, who described an exercise where teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning. ‘This is not normal practice’
“I’ve worked with teachers in other districts who have gone through ALICE, and this did not happen,” said Barbara Deardorff, ISTA’s UniServ director for 16 school districts, including the Twin Lakes district and Meadowlawn Elementary.

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