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They are in grades 6-8.

A few of my students asked me today, "Miss, what do we do if somebody comes to the school and starts shooting people?" (I got similar questions from students after 9/11.)

I looked at them and told them to fight with everything in them. I reminded them that I will not condone them fighting one another on campus, but that if an attacker enters the school and is threatening their lives, then I want them to fight.

One boy asked, "Well what do we use, a desk? Do I throw a desk at him?"

I told him to throw everything they had at the person to subdue him. (I say him, since I'm not familiar with any female school shooters. When we ladies get upset about something, we prefer to eat a half gallon of Blue Bell.)

We discussed 9/11, and how Flight 93 passengers responded when they found out the intentions of the hijackers. My students seemed relieved to have my blessing on their innate reflex to fight back when attacked.

This is really sad.

I disagree, however, with the idea that the VT administrators need to be held responsible for the deaths of these people. These are educators, not crime analysts. The VT administrators did not kill them; the shooter did.

However, I do believe that some responsibility rests on law-makers for stripping these students of their self-defense rights.