The teachers who cried gunman
May 14, 2007 at 5:29 pm by Russell McLendon in Not-lantaTeachers stage fake gun attack on kids
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
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Nothing like several minutes of sustained, death-fearing trauma at that age to set kids on the right track. Why not kill a few birds with one amygdala-rattling stone and teach them seatbelt safety by calling them into the principal’s office to tell them their parents died in a car accident? They’ll learn so much after therapy!
While it was additionally shitty of them to do this on the last night of a weeklong field trip, probably the worst of many terrible aspects is the fact that teachers told the kids, “This is not a drill.” But it was a fucking drill. What about when it really isn’t a drill? Isn’t there some fable about this?
And what possible positive lesson was there for the kids to learn from being convinced for five minutes they had to hide under tables to save their lives? Maybe the class is now cowering at an eighth-grade level.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Remind me to walk over to your desk later and talk about how completely screwed up that is.