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Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids
charlotte.com ^ | 05/13/07 | AP

Posted on 05/13/2007 3:04:17 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

MURFREESBORO, 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."


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To: shag377
Did the kids know that something could happen? How did you all keep them calm?

We had 3 days of call-in bomb threats back in January. Turned out it was an adult with no kids in the school, no connection that was apparant doing it from a grocery store phone at the pharmacy. The police figured it out from the surveillance cameras in the store. How wierd. Off course she was charged and I do believe she is in jail now serving time.

101 posted on 05/13/2007 4:39:04 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: shag377

It has to be tough to be a teacher nowadays...I often ask my daughter if she could find a different job with more money, etc....but she is a born teacher, she loves the kids.


102 posted on 05/13/2007 4:39:18 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Fred sez "I'm not interested in being the tallest midget in the room.." RUN FRED RUN!)
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To: Mo1

Indeed, that is the downside of a RTW state, little built in protection. So you are right, I’d expect some vacancies too.


103 posted on 05/13/2007 4:40:01 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: TornadoAlley3

Those teachers were sadists who got off on scaring the kids. “teaching experience” my aXX.


104 posted on 05/13/2007 4:40:20 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: exit82

%8, would, of course, done you in.

Where did that number come from, exactly?

Has anyone else ever done 58 MT?

Does such a thing exist?

Has it ever?

Einstein claimed such a burst would ignite the atmosphere, and kill us all.

I dunno, he may be right.

The Soviet Union made a lot of claims - I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in them.


105 posted on 05/13/2007 4:40:45 PM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: Oztrich Boy; patton

OB, thanks for the info.

Patton, my original contention was that at 12 miles radius, we would have been incinerated—which is like what happens when your whole town catches fire at once.

Anyway, at 5MT to 10 MT, a not unthinkable yield for hydrogen air blast detonation over NYC, the results at 12 miles radius were most likely not survivable.

Even if you were in a basement and somehow missed the initial blast effects, the radiation would have gotten you with a fatal exposure in as little as 25 minutes.


106 posted on 05/13/2007 4:42:10 PM PDT by exit82 (Sheryl Crow is on a roll)
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To: exit82

That and...

1. 500 meter airburst
2. Big CEP (Soviets depended on huge warheads, because their accuracy wasn’t so hot.)

Could go either way- Ten megs yes- but it could miss by miles and miles on the ‘away from you’ side of the target.


107 posted on 05/13/2007 4:43:49 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: JoeSixPack1
The insane among us have supervisory control of our kids. Lovely.

This illustrates the Achille's heel of public education: mediocrities with no noticeable sense of boundaries or fiduciary responsibility, who nevertheless think their B.A. in education and their six week summer-school M.Ed. gives them the right to abuse and run riot over the best interests of children. The same level of judgment which includes a passle of bimboes seeking sex with twelve year olds.

108 posted on 05/13/2007 4:44:01 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: CindyDawg

I have a 7th grade daughter. After WV, I have told her to get out of the building any way possible. Thankfully the builing is all one story. If the guy is in the room she should throw things at him and get the others to do so also. Being a sitting duck is not the best option.


109 posted on 05/13/2007 4:44:14 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Oztrich Boy

I didn’t realize that their CEP was that tight in the 60s.


110 posted on 05/13/2007 4:45:45 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: exit82

...and my contention is that the effects of nuclear war, while horrible, are so far exagerated that it is silly.

Ever notice that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still cities?


111 posted on 05/13/2007 4:47:21 PM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: TornadoAlley3

Somewhere there is a cash register position open at some McDonald’s for these people.....and even then it is questionable whether they can exercise good judgement in getting the orders in.


112 posted on 05/13/2007 4:48:14 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: reasonisfaith
Duck, cover, and hide is going to get children killed in a hostage situation. Doing so gives gun men a much easier target to hit. The videos from Columbine give proof of that.

I read somewhere that some terrorist experts state that the schools need to teach the teachers and the students that they should flee in a zig zag pattern away from the school if presented with the opportunity to escape.

113 posted on 05/13/2007 4:48:36 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: SoftballMominVA

Yes, we did a lot on our minds as children.

Mine are grown up now, but I was thankful that they didn’t have to live their whole childhood under the cloud we did.

Having different drill “rings” and destinations could have been scary for children—second guessing what you heard;confusion over where the right place was, etc.


114 posted on 05/13/2007 4:48:51 PM PDT by exit82 (Sheryl Crow is on a roll)
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To: patton

Well, the effects weren’t exaggerated if you were one of the 150,000 immediately killed, or the thousands who suffered radiation poisoning.

What we mutually could agree on, is that, we were blissfully uninformed of the real dangers such warfare wouod inflict on us.


115 posted on 05/13/2007 4:51:30 PM PDT by exit82 (Sheryl Crow is on a roll)
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To: festus
Their fat and psycopathic wives Would thrash them within inches of their lives.”

[Insert rosie odonnell pic.]

116 posted on 05/13/2007 4:51:46 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

They’re a bunch of sadists. I’d cut every one of those teachers loose. It’s completely irresponsible to terrorize your school children in this manner.


117 posted on 05/13/2007 4:51:54 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Rudy endorses infanticide. Romney is another MA flip-flopper. We MUST do better!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
A responsible person with a weapon could of killed the teacher with the fake gun if the teachers went that far.

Well, then it would be good guys 1, terrorists 0.

118 posted on 05/13/2007 4:52:02 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story.)
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To: Riley

Riley, don’t forget, the Russians and the US both had huge numbers of missiles. More than one would have been targeted at NYC just to counter the “missed by a mile” scenario.


119 posted on 05/13/2007 4:53:21 PM PDT by exit82 (Sheryl Crow is on a roll)
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To: exit82
Duck and cover - 4 short blasts, break, 4 short blasts, break - be under desk

Tornado - 3 short blasts, break 3 short blasts, get in hallway, go to knees, cover head

Fire drill - 2 short blasts, break, 2 short blasts, break, get in line to go outside.

Thinking back, yeah, it did scare me as we were always afraid it was real. For the tornado, it was real at least 4 times I can remember. We did tornado drills at home with my dad having a whistle.

120 posted on 05/13/2007 4:53:32 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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