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School drunk driving hoax |
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Posts: 10510 (06/12/08 9:56 PM) Lunitari Mage |
Many people will say that it's worth doing a hoax like this if it helps keep kids from drinking and driving. But when I saw this story, I though it was
absolutely sick. The school is damned lucky that one of those kids didn't take their own life or do something drastic before learning the truth.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/drunken.driving.ap/index.html |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Posts: 11439 (06/13/08 8:02 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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"We wanted to traumatize the kids!"
Yeah, the but the lesson you're giving them isn't "don't drive drunk." It's "don't trust authority." As though kids don't already think that adults are completely dishonest when it comes to drugs and alcohol. And if any kids from their class had died in a drunk driving accident, that hoax would have been incredibly disrespectful to their memory. |
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Posts: 111 (06/13/08 12:42 PM) |
God, that's just wrong on so many levels. It's another great example of adult hypocrisy. I'm sure if it had been the other way around and a group of kids pulled this prank on the teachers and/or parents, they would've been really mad and the students would've been punished.
Oh my God, they found Tom.
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Posts: 579 (06/13/08 12:55 PM) |
If I was one of the kids that was supposed to have been "killed", I would've refused to participate. But also there were so many shitheads in my school that if someone had just told me they died in a crash or fire I wouldn't have even cared. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Posts: 11439 (06/13/08 1:26 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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There was one kid who died in my highschool whose death was so strange, it weirded me out even though I didn't know him.
At least one person in my highschool class died in a drunk driving accident, and I later found that someone I graduated highschool with died in a car crash on the highway during college spring break.
See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!
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Posts: 77 (06/13/08 2:05 PM) |
That's a sick way to teach.
In my viens it courses through
That addictive Code Red Mountain Dew |
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Posts: 770 (06/14/08 12:05 PM) Band on the Run |
That's what angers me about it, too, FO. If it had been the other way around, the students probably would have been suspended if not expelled. Parents
would not appreciate a prank like that even if it was meant to teach a lesson.
"No one can withstand
the power of KAIN"
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Posts: 1993 (06/15/08 3:07 AM) Hit and away is my style! |
We had a similar program in our high school my senior year called "Every 15 Minutes." A student was removed from class every 15 minutes by a
"grim reaper" and disappeared for the rest of the day. At an assembly the next day, they showed students involved in the crash receive the
consequences: the student who was drunk and caused the crash found himself in prison, a well-known student whose father was VP at the junior high had his
parents informed of the tragedy, and clips of the car crash were shown to everyone.
It might have been effective had this been done with different people. The VP had trouble showing emotion in a regular situation, and having him ACT like he was upset after his son's fake passing didn't work too well. People were disrespectful during the assembly, whooping and whistling during the moment of silence. There were real tears from the parents who were sitting in the "funeral hall" in the center of the basketball court, and there was even a parent who had lost a kid during an accident. Truth is, nobody cared. I may have cared more had I not missed half of the program due to AP testing. I don't think the way they went about this is right, but after experiencing a program like that - done as tastefully as possible without lying to the students, and them still not giving a damn - I really can't come up with a better way to go about things. Where does learning end and trauma begin? |
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