A week or so ago I talked about the various Primary and Secondary Targets that a potential victim can strike, kick, gouge or leverage, as well as our personal weapons we can use to win a life or death fight, or just to escape a scrape with your body intact.  It occurred to me that maybe I should briefly elaborate one or two ways to most effectively do this.  Here are a few examples of how you can put an attacker down, if not out:

EYES       Hook fingers inside mandible and gouge either or both eyes using your thumbs.  Will

                   Result in the attacker immediately letting go of any body part he is holding and grabbing at his eyes.  This is a primary target, so, if you can follow up with another strike, you are almost always home free.  Another method is the Tiger Claw, which consists of crashing the heel of your palm into the subject’s chin and driving the head “off” his neck, following up by driving the fingers into his eyes.

NOSE    Drive a Hammer Fist strike down onto the nose or drive a Palm Heel Strike up through the Blind Spot that extends from his solar plexus to his nose into the nose.  Will cause great pain, an immediate debilitating watering of the eyes, and, usually, instant cessation of fighting.  Always follow up with a flurry of other strikes and kicks as his head drops.

CHIN    A strong Palm Heel Strike or Horizontal Elbow Strike will often stun an attacker.  If you can drive the chin and jaw up toward the nose, you can do significant damage.  Once again, always follow up with other strikes. 

THROAT  This is a Primary Target because a solid strike with even a glancing blow can put the Bad Guy quickly out of action.  Hit the throat with a Beak Strike, Web Strike, or with the Ridge hand.  Peruse past posts for more details and descriptions of these strikes.  A strike to the throat will prevent the Bad Guy from breathing and must be followed up with other merciless strikes.  Also, any Improvised Weapon, such as a cell phone, paperback book, car keys, whatever, will work wonders if driven hard into the thriat!

JUGULAR NOTCH  is a fantastic Pressure Point located directly beneath the Bad Guy’s Adam’s Apple.  Just hook your middle two fingers in the “notch,” and drive the fingers in and down—hard!   Done right, the Bad Guy will grab his neck, choke, and start backing away.

EARS  are secondary targets, but don’t minimize their impact value.  Slap the palms of both hands hard against the ears and the subject may suffer disorientation and pain.  Now, as he reels, hit him again in one of the many open targets.

BACK OF HEAD AND NECK.  There may be times when the attacker is pulling you in to him and he exposes the back of his head and/or the top of his spine.  The harder you can drop a personal weapon or two onto that target the more stunned will the Bad Guy become.  When he is stunned is the time to follow-up with another blow, most likely an Ascending Knee Strike into the Descending Head!  Your best bets to hit the back of head target would be a Double Descending hammer Fist Strike (clasp both hands together, raise them up and drop them as a unit hard onto the target), or a Descending Elbow Drop.

CLAVICLE.  A Descending Elbow Drop onto one of the clavicles can do considerable damage.  Make sure you drive the Tip of the Elbow as hard and direct as possible into this target.  You can also use a Single Descending Hammer Strike.  Best to follow up with an Ascending Knee Strike into the groin.

FOREARMS, WRISTS AND HANDS.  If the Bad Guy has grabbed you, it’s a simple matter of dropping  the bony parts of your forearm as hard and as often as you can onto his forearms, wrists and hands.  Doesn’t sound like much in this venue, but, if you try it and make sure you aim your impact point through the target instead of bouncing off of it, I am sure you will see how effective it can be.  

GROIN.  Another Primary Target.  If it is open, it can easily be hit, if you don’t telegraph the incoming strike.  Ascending Knee Strike; Ascending Shin Kick; Universal Strike; or dropping your fist hard into the groin as the Bad Guy pulls you in, all can work.  Tips include not looking at the target (telegraphing)m before you strike.  Even a fake knee strike will always cause the Bad Guy to immediately bring both hands toward his crotch – an instinctive move – which will also open up other targets.

Next Post:  More Targets.  More Methods.

Until then.  Stay Safe.  Hammer

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What exactly are the statistics relative to suicides and suicidal ideation, I have little clue.  Fact is, though, for over 8 years I worked part-time for Lehigh County (Pa) Crisis Intervention, and by that yardstick I can tell you ideation is a huge problem.

In too many cases, if the student is thinking it, soon he or she will be doing it!

It is natural, then, for me to suggest that, if and when schools come up with appropriate in and out-service training programs for their teachers that they consider developing a plan that specifies how to identify students at risk, how to handle threats (of suicide), and what actions to take in the case of suicidal threats, plus, what actions to take in the event of a suicide.

Schools must ensure that students have, and are aware of, simple and easy ways to get help, such as access to suicide hotlines, counselors, et al.

McGinty goes on to suggest that students, parents, guardians, teachers, and other school personnel be educated on how to identify and get help for troubled students before they actuate their suicidal ideation.

Mayhap another issue schools might address is how to encourage teachers, students, parents/guardians to report their fears and concerns about their children and the kids of others.  My research relative to Workplace Violence would indicate that over 85% of violence on or near the job site could have been prevented, if reported.

Until my next post, please—

Stay Safe.

Hammer

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July 7, 2009

Saving The Little Girl At the Bottom of the Lake

This is Part III of a four-part post following police discovering the weighted-down body of a little girl at the bottom of Lake Wallenpaupak in a Northeast Pennsylvania resort area.  Part I was a plea to schools and/or parents to take the role of Safety Coaches for their children; II looked at some strategies Safety Coaches can teach their children on evading and escaping the Chicken Hawk if and when the predator layed hands on the child, and, so here we are.  Part III.

Part III:  Worse Case Scenario – The Predator Drags the Child to His Car!

A primal principle of surviving a confrontation with a predator:  Never Go With Him.  Always Stay in the First Place (Initial Crime Scene)!  Why?  The predator wants more than anything to remove the child as fast as possible from where that child is found.  The constant and inexorable intent is to abduct the child and take him or her to an isolated Secondary Crime Scene where the abductor has all the time and privacy he needs to torture, molest and kill the child.

Fact is, I would be – and so would any responsible Safety Coach – a fool if I didn’t prepare my child students for the possibility when they would be taken, despite their best efforts, away from the initial (crime) scene. 

What, then, do you teach your children to do in this situation?*

Obviously, it is up to you.  You may come up with a better strategy.  You may.  But I doubt that you will conjure up a better set of principles think I.  The principles should guide all of your strategies and techniques.

NEVER, EVER GIVE UP.

BREATHE, DON’T FREEZE.

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A SECOND OR TWO WHERE YOU CAN ESCAPE.  TAKE IT!

Teach the child that, even though the situation seems hopeless, there will always be an opportunity to fight and escape if he or she keeps alert and does not panic.  For instance, if the abductor passes anything the child can grab onto and hug, Do It!

If the predator(s) pauses at his getaway car to open the door, wait until he frees one of his hands to squirm, kick and bite and to drop toward the predator’s feet.  Hook onto his legs, ankles.

If the predator does get the door open, here may be a chance to escape!  The Bad Guy will be in a hurry, so this is the time where he may, in his haste, make a mistake.  The child needs to be alert for anything he or she can use.  Like placing his or her feet against the passenger seat and pushing against it.  Like grabbing the seat belt fastener and pulling on that.

If the child is placed in the seat, he or she can throw the male portion of the seatbelt into the doorway to make it tough to close.  He can disobey the Bad Guy’s instructions to belt him/herself in and when the Bad Guy reaches to belt him in, the child can rake the guy’s eyes, strike him in the throat, whatever needs to be done in order to escape.

“Easier said than done,” you are thinking.  Very true.  But what the heck else you got?

Remember:  The key here is to delay the Bad Guy at the crime scene, to draw attention to the child’s plight.  A desperation tactic could also be to reach out one’s hands to the Bad Guy, as if to hug.  If the Bad Guy falls for it, the child can slide over toward the Bad Guy – which is always what the Bad Guy wants – and, suddenly, leap face first against the Bad Guy and hook onto him – face-to-face.  As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the child is now in position to bite, gouge, head butt and just hold on to the predator.

Not only can the predator not drive, more likely than not, he would not EVEN WANT to drive with a child who is not his own hooked on to him face-to-face.  Would you?  Looks a little suspicious, wouldn’t you say?

The child can also grab the keys and toss them into the back seat.

*The success or failure of these esoteric strategies depends on your trainings as a Safety Coach.  My suggestion:  Use fun Role Play Games to teach your kids how to do what I have suggested in this and previous posts.  Without making the games terrifying, teach your child how to avoid being placed in a car by using the Drop, Lock and Roll technique; teach them how to open the passenger door from the inside (when it is locked); maybe teach them how to escape from the inside of a trunk, or, at the least, break one of the tail lights and stick a hand or object through the hole to attract attention.

These strategies can save your child from the bottom of The Lake.

Want more specifics about being a Safety Coach?  About the Drop, Lock and Roll?  Contact The Hammer at www.ActionFightingArts.com , or at harrywigder@rcn.com.  All assistance is totally free.

Stay Safe.

Hammer

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TEACH THE CHILD TO EVADE AND ESCAPE THE EVIL CHICKEN HAWK!

In law enforcement we call child predators Chicken Hawks.  The nickname’s pejorative.  A slur.  As in evil, cowardly, skulking, opportunistic.  Also, if not avoided or stopped PDQ,  deadly.  If you read my last post, you know I am referring to the cowardly Chicken Hawk who abducted, molested and drowned a young girl in a lake not far from where I live.  Tied the girl to a weight and dropped her in the water, he did.

In my last post, then, I elaborated – with a pretty heavy heart – on how parents and schools can help prevent this by being their child’s Safety Coach.  As promised, in this one I’m going to elaborate on what the child can do if ever they are in the grasp of a sexual predator.

For starters, one thing is clear (to me):  Without a Safety Coach to teach them, the child will react naturally, which means he or she will do nothing and freeze, 98+% of the time.  Reacting to a potential or real attack with action, speed, and fury is an Unnatural Act!  It must be instilled in the child through training.  So, if you cannot or will not inculcate the following skills, find a training system that will!

KID ESCAPE TECHNIQUES WHEN EVASION FAILS

• HAVE A PLAN:  Encourage your child to think ahead of time of an escape route, etc.  This is tough for a child to do, so, when you are coaching your child, play the What If Game to encourage them to think in scenarios.
• BREATHE, DON’T FREEZE!  Get oxygenated blood going to your brain and always do something!  Never freeze.  That is what the predator wants most.  Over 98% of victims freeze upon First Touch.  Teach your child to use First Touch (by the predator) as a Mental Trigger for action!
• TURN THE PREDATOR’S PSYCHOLOGY AGAINST HIM.  Teach the child that time and movement are the Chicken Hawk’s enemy.  Therefore, do things that will expand the amount of time he has to spend at the scene:

Ø      Run In A Serpentine Motion.

Ø      Destroy the Environment.  Throw objects in his path as you run.

Ø      Put Out The Fire.  Roll on the ground as if you are trying to put out a fire with your shirt.  Roll away from him.

Ø      Crab Walk Away From Him.

Ø      Make Noise and Act Crazy.  Arouse witnesses.  Scare the Bad Guy into thinking that soon witnesses will descend on the scene.

Ø      “Help Me!  He is not my father!”

Ø      Use Natural Barricades in the Environment To Buy You Time.

• IF AND WHEN HE GRABS THE CHILD, MAKE IT HARD FOR HIM TO HOLD ON!  This is a key escape move.  Teach the child how to be like an unwilling pet who wiggles, kicks, scratches, etc. so that it can escape. 

Ø      Grab on to anything and hug it!  Wrap your hands around a tree, a pole, a bed post, the handlebars of your bike.  Anything that can buy you precious time.

Ø      Play dead in his arms as if you are the perfect victim, and, then, when he least expects it, squirm, wiggle, kick, bite and escape.

• DROP. LOCK AND ROLL!  Teach the child to play “Twister.”  Quickly drop and lock on to his waist or legs.  Drop head first, if possible.  The end goal is to hook on to his ankles and or shins with your hands and feet.  Yes, the predator might pummel the child and try to break him/her loose, but, please remember “Self Defense is not an injury free activity!”  The key here is that the Bad Guy cannot walk quickly and will not be able to carry the child from the Initial Crime Scene with the speed required.

• CHANCES ARE, IF HIS TIME AND “INVISIBILITY” ARE COMPROMISED, THE CHICKEN HAWK WILL GIVE UP THE HUNT AND DISENGAGE WITHOUT HIS PREY.  WILL MOVE ON TO ANOTHER VICTIM!

In the next post:  Your Child’s Escape and Evasion Strategy if Dragged To the Getaway Car!

Until then, Stay Safe.

Hammer.

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I had planned on posting about something entirely different, until I got the bad news yesterday.  A young girl, who had been abducted from her neighborhood a few days ago was found by police searchers at the bottom of Lake Wallenpaupak, a resort area located in the Poconos not far from where I live.  The poor girl was tied to a weight, so, once again, I find myself pitted against the inexorable, relentless and totally unmovable force of the Chicken Hawk.  The child hunter.

I have dedicated myself and much of my training to the safety of young people.  Children, teenagers. In school and out of school.  During the school year and, now, during Summer break. 

Problem is, teachers, security, administrators, parents and students, so does the predator dedicate and commit himself to getting these children and teenagers into his clutches.

Obviously, he’s better at what he does than I.

So, what can parents and children do to protect against this miscreant?  The remedy sounds simple.  But, obviously, it is not.  If it was, there would be no girl at the bottom of the lake.

Parents must be their child’s Safety Coach.  Must always be attentive, supportive.  Safety Coaches in that they must train their children constantly to:

·        Always be aware of men in their environment who are paying too much attention to them.

·        Always report to them whenever they are approached.

·        Never, Ever leave the original scene with anyone!

·        Always trust their gut instincts when someone gives them the creeps.

·        Have their permission to treat adults rudely and abruptly when an adult attempts to invade their PSZ (Personal Safety Zone) without their (the child’s) permission.

·        Have their permission to “Act Crazy” when approached by a person who might be trying to abduct them.  Teach the child that all predators are looking for a meek, mild, and especially a quiet child.  The child should be a “barrel of noise and movement.”  Never freeze, or stand still. Do something!

·        Never, ever allow any adult or teenager to touch them anywhere on their person, especially their “special zones (teach your child that their “Special Zones” is anywhere that would be covered by their bathing suit)!

·        Never talk to any adult.  If the adult asks for help with anything, understand that any “normal” adult would probably never ask a child for help.

·        Leave the area as soon as the child realizes that an adult is stalking him/her in a car or on foot.  Go to another “safer-looking adult,” preferably a woman with children.

• Whenever possible, go places with at least one friend.  Try not to be alone.  Alwways tell your parents where you are going and when you are coming back, and what route you will take.

·        If trapped in an area with an adult, yell and move and make eye contact.  Make it clear you will not be an easy target.  Run in a zig-zag motion, using barricades in the environment to buy you time.  Throw object at the Bad Guy’s feet.

In the next post, “What Your Child Must Do If Grabbed.”

Until then, Stay Safe.

Hammer

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My last post spoke of the efficacy of learning principles over techniques.  This post, I thought I could talk about one of the key principles of my many self defense training programs (Kid Escape/Counter Abduction Techniques/Comet Kids/Advanced Fighting Arts For Women/Sixty and Beyond for Seniors/Bully Be Gone, etc.)

Primary Principle:  There will always be Open Targets.  Concentrate on hitting the most valuable (Primary Targets) Targets.  If Primary Targets are not immediately open, always hit Secondary Targets to force the Primaries to open.

Elaborating on this principle:  If a Bad Guy grabs you with both hands, every conceivable target is open!  As long as his hands are on you, he/she can not use them with which to strike you and he cannot use them to block.  Granted, if he or she is stronger than you and he has your arms and hands tied up, you will have difficulty using them to strike.  But, need I remind you that your hands are not your only striking levers?

PERSONAL WEAPONS

Your personal weapons include anything on your body with which you can hit the attacker.  They include the:  Front and Back of your head.  The Head Butt has been known to shock, stun and even knock an attacker unconscious.  Other Personal Weapons include your:

• Teeth.
• Shoulders.
• Buttocks ( a nicely timed butt-strike can knock a rearward attacker back a step or two).
• Elbows.
• Forearms.
• Hands/Heel of palms/Fingers/Fingernails/Backs of Hands.
• Knees.
• Shins.
• Feet.

There are other personal and Improvised Weapons I could go into, but, suffice to say that virtually anything can work to free you from a jam.  But, since Personal Targets are the theme here, let’s delve into that area for a minute or two:

SECONDARY TARGETS

Secondary Targets are body zones you can hit with very little difficulty.  However, striking a ST will rarely end a fight in your favor.  Hitting ST’s, however, will open up the Primary Targets:

• Top of the Feet,
• Toes of the Feet.
• Ankles.
• Shins.
• Knees (Knees can also be a Primary Target.  I say, if the knees are open, always go for them.  Striking a knee with a good kick can drop a Bad Guy instantly!).
• Inner and Outer Thighs.  The Femoral Nerve Motor Point is halfway between the groin and the knee.  Common Personeal is on the outside.  Hitting either or both can stun an attacker.
• Bladder.
• Stomach.
• Solar Plexis.
• Floating Ribs.
• Ears.
• Nose.
• Forearms and Wrists.
• Fingers.
• Chin.

PRIMARY TARGETS

Once again, the key is to hit one or more of the many Secondary Targets, many of which should be easyto hit.  Follow up immediately as other targets inevitably open up.  Train yourself to concern yourself with these targets, even if you are also being hit at the time.  Targets are the key!

• GROIN.
• EYES.
• THROAT
• *NOSE
• *KNEES.

Kneeing the groin, gouging an eye, and/or driving the ridge of your hand or your fingers into the throat will cause an immediate sensory breakdown.  The once confident attacker will now have problems seeing you, will be hard pressed to breathe, and/or will start to fold toward the ground.  Whether hitting the attacker’s nose or knees, however, may not have the immediate affects of the first three targets, but the Bad Guy will experience great not only great pain, but will experience watering of the eyes and disorientation (nose) and will fold quickly to the ground (knees).

During my self defense trainings, one scenario is a realistic one where the attacker grabs the woman or teen (SD For Women and/or COMET Kids) with one hand and starts to pull the “victim” toward him (the attacker).  The response I always hope for and every once in a while actually see is the “victim” grabbing the Bad Guy’s hand and holding it to his or her (the “Victim’s) body with the opposite hand (so the Bad Guy can not use that hand to block or strike) and then shooting the same side hand into the attacker’s face several times since the attacker lost the ability to block any incoming strikes once he/she elected to grab his/her intended victim.

Until the Next Post, Stay Safe.

Hammer

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So what were the findings of the study? Meagan Engle wrote a report for the Journal News where she detailed some of the most significant findings:

Results indicated that most Middletown students felt that their school climate was fairly positive on most indicators.

Concerning the adults in their school, most students felt that adults in their school treated them fairly, encouraged them to do well, respected them, were friendly to them, and expected them to do well. Half (51 %) felt that adults at their school cared about them (compared to 46% in 2007-2008) while one-third (38%) felt that adults at their school made them feel important (29% in 2007 -2008).

Nearly half (46%) felt that adults at their school try to understand them (compared to 41 % in 2007-2008). Equivalent to last year, a total of 54% reported that there is an adult at their school who they could go to if they had a problem.

Similarly, 54% reported that they felt like they fit in at their school.

These figures are quite important. While they may not be as high as I would like them to be, the mere fact that a good number of students feel confident in their teachers and other school authorities is a good sign, isn’t it? Another positive thing is the fact that many students feel that they fit in at school. This can be an indicator that problems like bullying may not be that serious. In fact, more figures show that only a small percentage of the students have a problem with bullying:

Thirteen percent reported that other students bully t hem (compared to 12% in 2007-2008), whereas 7% reported t hat they bully other students (compared to 7% in 2007- 2008).

Another interesting point is that this survey is carried out every year. I think that this is a very good way of getting feedback about the safety measures that they implement during the school year. I wonder if every other school district does the same thing?

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TECHNIQUES VS PRINCIPLES

I played in a golf tournament the other day, and, afterwards, over a few beers, talked self defense with a woman with whom I had just been golfing.  I hope I can do a better job explaining the difference between techniques and principles today than I did with her over a few beers.

The woman spoke about here brief experience with martial arts.  She spoke of the various techniques she had been taught in order to react to this attack from this angle and another technique she had been taught (Note:  I am not saying she learned the technique.  Just that she had been taught it.  There’s a difference.) as a reaction to another type of attack from that direction.  And so on.

This I believe is unreliable, invalid and, doubtless, ineffective training.  Need I repeat my oft-repeated axiom that “nothing, or at least as close to “nothing” as possible, ever happens on the street in the same way, same angle and same intensity as it does in training.?”

I believe in teaching principles, not techniques.  Not that long ago I was attacked from behind and driven to the ground.  I must admit that my first reaction was to use a technique I had hard wired against a tackle from behind.  I threw the bad guy off with a Donkey Kick Escape, but immediately after that I relied on key principles of survival and the correct procedures and techniques simply followed.  Naturally, without thinking about it.

What principles did I rely on?  “Look For Open Targets and hit them hard and quick.  Other targets will automatically open up and hit the most vulnerable and the ones (Primary Targets)with the “Highest Dollar Value.”

When you rely on principles you are task oriented.  Being task oriented removes a lot of the survival stress because you are not trying to think under high survival stress. 

So, all I had to do was to follow what I have been teaching for years.  Rely on the following principles, which, by the way, will work no matter if you are on the ground, standing, tackled by surprise, or see the punch coming from a mile away:

• Breathe In and Exhale.
• Hit his most vulnerable, open targets with my nearest personal weapon(s).

Ø     I drove my middle two fingers hard into the attacker’s Jugular Notch underneath his Adam’s Apple.

• Once you Attain the Expected Physical Reaction, Follow Up with Strikes to Other targets as They Open Up!

Ø     The Bad Guy recoiled backward (on the ground), so I attained the top position (Guard Position).  Drove my forearm into his face and broke his nose.

• Don’t Stop Until the Bad Guy Is Done!

Ø     Followed up with a Descending Knee Strike to his inner thigh (and groin).

Ø     As the injured attacker tried to roll away I established a Shoulder Pin Neck Restraint until he went limp, unconscious.

  One final point.  I believe if I had been trained repetitiously on techniques against staged attacks I would have been hard pressed to have reacted the way I did to being tackled from behind.  My face hit the cement, and, for a second, I thought I would pass out.  But, then, my training and self-conditioned Survival Psyche kicked in.  Just the like the other principles above, the Survival mentality is Principle-Driven.

Never, ever allow yourself to give up.  Ever!

Until the next post, Stay Safe.

Hammer

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More than five years later, the US Supreme Court has laid down a decision on the case. The New York Times has a story about the ruling, written by Justice David H. Souter:

A search of Ms. Redding’s backpack and outer garments did not offend the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches. But the pills in question, each no stronger than two Advils, did not justify an “embarrassing, frightening and humiliating search,” Justice Souter wrote.

Naturally, this incident has caught the attention of the public. Think about it, if you had a daughter – a teenage daughter – and she was made to endure a strip search in school because of an unverified tip, how would you react? I would probably head on over to the school and demand an explanation – and more. No matter how you look at it, a strip search is quite demeaning.

Now I am not saying that in certain cases, a strip search may be necessary. In Savana’s case, however, I do think that it was a bit excessive. While ibuprofen may be banned from school grounds, I hardly think that it was a matter of life and death; that it warranted a strip search then and there.

On the other hand, I do realize that school authorities do have a problem with drugs being brought to and used in school. This ruling does place them in a bind. I somehow understand that school authorities are quite worried that they might find their hands tied in this regard. However, perhaps there are other ways by which we can deal with the drug problem in schools. As for strip searches, they may or may not be necessary.

Personally, I think that in this particular case, it was not. But I am not going to close myself to the possibility that one may be necessary in other cases. What about you?

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By now, all schools have effectively shut down until late August, early September.  And while many teachers and security staff pursuer secondary or part time jobs, still, I think primary, secondary and even collegiate educational systems would be well advised to encourage their staff to get involved in training programs that seek to address issues designed to address various areas of school violence.

According to James McGinty’s Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence, circa 2003, “Because teachers and staff establish the first line of school safety, they should be supported in creating safe classroom atmospheres.  Schools should provide training and technical assistance to teachers and staff in the following areas:

·        Conflict Resolution and management.

·        Hostility and anger management.

·        Victim sensitivity and support.

·        Crisis/critical incident management.

·        Bullying and harassment recognition, prevention, and intervention.

·        Who should, how to, and where to refer students and families to social service agencies.

·        Classroom management.

·        How to identify and defuse potentially violent situations.

·        How teachers’ and other staff members own behavior may diffuse or escalate conflict.

·        How to identify troubles students.

·        How to communicate and work with parents/guardians in order to intervene in the behavior of troubles students.

·        How to most effectively work with classes that have ethnic and economic diversity.

My V.I.S.E. (Verbal Intervention Strategies in the Educational Environment) and my Disruptive Student Management Instructor Seminars, by the way, are two excellent training programs that will subsume almost all of the above categories. 

Until next time, Stay Safe.

Hammer

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