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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: Teacher Tricks: This One Really Takes the Cake |
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I couldn't pass this one up. How brainless was this episode? Might need to start a new reality TV show, "Teachers Gone Wild." Jeez.
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Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids
(AP) Nashville, TENN. 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.
"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged.
"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.
Some parents said they were upset by the staff's poor judgment in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.
During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on locked door.
After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.
"I was like, 'Oh My God,' " she said. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out."
Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment." |
Gee, ya think maybe? |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: |
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If my kid had been in that class i would have punched the damn teacher.
WTF was the point?
Maybe they should be teaching the kids statistics... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a shame none of the kids used that opportunity to do something like grab a metal bar and break a teacher's kneecap. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| It's a shame none of the kids used that opportunity to do something like grab a metal bar and break a teacher's kneecap. |
Agreed.
Who in their right mind would think that was a good idea??? |
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I have one better- showing "Broke Back Mountain" to a group of sixth graders. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| and a mom is suing the school board due to mental distress to her daughter.. while I agree it's not an appropriate movie to be showing to them at their age.. i doubt it would cause mental distress. That is, of course unless she's religious.. |
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