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(By the very interesting Timothy Messer-Kruse.)
It is rare for meetings in academia to be labelled as “mandatory.” But
the memo summoning all the faculty and staff to participate in “ALICE
(active shooter) training” made it clear that we were required to
attend. I was told by a representative of my faculty union that I could
be disciplined by the college if I skipped it.
I must admit that my initial objection to being summoned to this meeting
did not arise from some deeply thought-out ethical position. It was,
frankly, just a typical professor’s reluctance to waste time in yet
another empty exercise whose main function was to allow some
administrator to check a box indicating the accomplishment of some
mandate from a higher administrator.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/06/a-l-i-c-e-in-shooterland/
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