Spray and Pray is a military doctrine that states that automatic gunfire can often not hit a single target in the desired area. The preferred strategy is to use controlled, aimed bursts rather than spraying an area with automatic fire. The US military is the only major military to no longer issue rifles with fully automatic capabilies, and have instead added a 3-shot burst to compenstate for lack of training and lack of confidence in a soldier's ability to control his fire.
"Spray and pray" would come to be the practice on the future battlefields of Vietnam.
Lots of close quarters combat, presumably lots of spray firing from the hip, since, we're told, they were trained by the military to "spray and pray." Here's the pictures I found of our troops:
I guess they didn't get the VPC memo that "spray and pray" is the new wave in combat effectiveness at close range.
Spray and pray PD, action research, and educational change
I am not ready to abandon the “spray and pray” model altogether– that is the REALITY of professional development in many of our schools, after all, and in the case of tonight’s workshop all the participants were volunteers.
Spray and Pray does work for the teachers who are absolutely driven to seek out new things.
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