- The who: High school and college-aged adults in the United States
- The what: Do not have the knowledge on how to defend themselves in crisis situations
- The why: Alarmingly high rates of abductions and assaults
Testing the three elements:
- Testing the who: Is it only young adults in the United States? Or, does this affect young adults across the world
- Testing the what: Is it a defense against all weapons, Or, mainly guns? Is self-defense mainly against men? Or, should the class be catered to all genders? Are the classes providing basic training? Or, full defense training more of a necessity?
- Testing the why: What are the range of whys that they offer? Does the why hold for everyone?
Interviewees:
Interviewee #1: A 27-year-old male from Prince Georges County, Maryland
Interviewee #2: A 19-year-old woman at the University of Florida
Interviewee #3: A 14-year-old girl from Prince Georges County, Maryland
Interviewee #4: A 40-year-old woman from Prince Georges County, Maryland
Interviewee #5: A 21-year-old male from Santa Fe College
Summary:
Hi Jackson, as the topic of the safe of the students is becoming hotter and hotter nowadays, students in school are more and more concerning about their safety. After reading your post about the self defense and weapon training, I think it is essential for students to study how to self defense the offense. Otherwise, I found that the interviewee you picked has a great variation of age, which could increase the reliabilty of the survey.
ReplyDeleteHi Ashlyn! For some reason I was not able to see the summary. However, I understood the description of the why differently. For the assignment I thought that the why meant why is the what occurring. If that is the case then the lack of KNOWLEDGE on how to defend yourself is not due to the alarmingly high rates of abductions and assaults. Yes, you should learn to defend yourself (the need implied by the what stated) because of the alarmingly high rates of abduction (the stated why). But not that the lack of knowledge is caused or due to the high rates of such crime. Then again, that is what I understood of the assignment. I do truly agree that knowing how to defend yourself is vital.
ReplyDeleteHey, Ashlyn!
ReplyDeleteI love your idea! My parents taught me as a child to defend myself and to be situationally aware. We had a bomb threat at my high school once and my Spanish teacher told the class to follow me if someone came to the door. Our whole class discussed it the next week. Our teacher was upset because, when she asked the school board how she could defend her students, they replied, "you have scissors."
I think it's a great idea but almost undoubtedly, there will be some who claim we're just militarizing schools or they will be concerned about further training potential school shooters. I think the student body would be better off receiving training regardless; it may even de-incentivize potential school shooters because they'll see first hand that the general body is not defenseless.
I also could not see the summary for some reason but I like the variety of interviewees you chose.