It’s Called Crowd Control
November 10, 2009 | Category: You do what?
I give total credit to my wife for this brilliant idea. A few years back we were very short handed in the volunteer department. And fortunately God was still adding to our numbers. So there we were the two of us attempting to control fifty seventh through twelfth graders. Not an easy task, for those of you who have ever tried to keep seventh grade girls from talking during the message you know what I’m talking about. Apparently my wife had been spending the majority of the Wednesday nights attempting to find ways to correct individual students behavior without having the assistance needed. And then it hit her, water guns! She saw a pile of tiny cheap-o dollar water pistols that we’d used to play some cheesy game. So she filled one up, and went to squirting the disruptions. With much surprise the shock of cold water hitting them caused their vocal cords to stop working, restoring order once again.
It’s been our primary weapon of crowd control ever since. In fact even though we have sufficient volunteers we simply have more armed enforcers. We have established this three strike policy for distractions during our worship services.
#1 Shot with water gun
#2 Shot with water gun & approached by an pistol wielding adult
#3The violator will have to come sit by an adult
Side note: Our cheap-o water guns aren’t always the most accurate, so we sometimes have collateral damage (students that get shot who weren’t being a distraction), we simply instruct our adults to have the student whisper for their friends to be quiet to prevent further saturation. That’s how we do it, and it works for us!
Tags: crowd control, discipline, distractions, enforcers, gun, volunteers, water, water guns
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