Friday, February 08, 2013

Sandwich Examples from Class

As promised, here are the examples of sandwiching your source material. I have made the corrections we talked about in class so that you will have solid examples to work with. 


Recently, the idea of teaching students to distract armed suspects has become a controversial issue. The students would be taught to distract and confuse armed suspects by throwing things and attacking them (“National School Safety”). This could prove to be very unsafe.

Many proposals have been made to protect students in a time of crisis. One says that students should be trained to “try to ‘distract’ and ‘confuse’ armed suspects” (“National School Safety”). People have gone into such a frenzy over the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that they come up with crazy ideas that even the people who were affected by the tragedy don’t like.

With the increase in school attacks, many ideas have been proposed to try to deal with the attacks while they are happening:
                The controversial issues…
                …school settings. ("National School Safety")
Advocates believe that these actions could slow down the attackers until law enforcement arrives.

Though some suggest a possible solution to school safety would be to encourage students to attack a suspect, it is not a popular theory: “Many educators, law enforcement officers, parents and school safety specialists do not support this proposed approach for 'training' students in preK-12 school settings” (“National School Safety”). Because of this, it is unlikely to be implemented.

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