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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."
Couldnt they have just told ghost stories?
If parents tried that they'd already have lost their children for child abuse, and have been arrested for terroristic threats.
It's a shame none of the kids were armed...
NO cheers, unfortunately.
When an inmate, I mean a student, doodles a stick figure with a pointy stick they lock the building down and expel the kid first and ask questions later.
When school employees in a position of authority terrorize the children in their care with threats of a real live gunman on the loose it’s a “learning experience.”
Hmm.
Wow, that really stuck with you, didn’t it?
We didn’t have the terror of tornadoes, just hurricanes—bad ones were few and far between, and you had some notice of them coming, even back then.
But tornadoes can strike with a short warning time, and that must have been scary.
Thanks for that glimpse into your childhood.
The school district is going to go bankrupt from the lawsuits.
That was the school I attended in 1st, 2nd, and 1/2 of 3rd grade in the 60’s. Guess you could say it did stick with me. My parents put me in a private Christian school 1/2 through 3rd grade when I got in trouble for hitting a kid with my Bible because he said something bad about Jesus. I hit him hard too, knocked to the floor.
They LIVE!!! wi Roddy Piper.
http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070512/NEWS03/70512007
‘Armed man’ story disturbs Scales campers
Scales Elementary School Principal Catherine Stephens called a special meeting today about an incident that took place Thursday night at Fall Creek Falls, where the Scales sixth-graders were having a weeklong field trip.
Teachers were telling ghost stories and one they told the students, said Assistant Principal Don Bartch, was that the park rangers had called and said there were armed subjects in the area and the children should hide under the tables if they saw or heard anything suspicious.
Then, Bartch said, one of the teachers, in a hooded sweatshirt, was seen outside, rattling the doors as though trying to get in.
After about five minutes, he said, the teachers told the students it was a prank and they talked about what to do if a situation such as that really took place.
Some of the children were frightened, although others said they weren’t, but Stephens, a graduate of Virginia Tech, said the story “crossed the line.”
She will be investigating the matter more, she told the parents.
1) Thermal flux.
2) Mass societal effects due to all the destruction closer to the blast then you.
See #1. Hint: fires spread.
No cheers, unfortunately.
Stop harassing kids over drawings,penknives,pointing fingers.
No, Not now, Yes.
Although it was a tactical nuclear weapon and wouldn't have been used against Continental US.
Tsar Bomba the biggest bomb ever detonated in human history, only had a fireball radius of 4.6km US scientists believe its 57 MT russians 50 MT.
Keep in mind due to weight, size and cost restrictions the yield of the individual warheads contained in a MiRV ICBM was under 20 kt each. SLBMs contained probably the same size due to uniformity reasons.
Thanks for not really doing that just suggesting it. The mental image was bad enough without the real image ;-)
We had a few duck and cover drills here in GA in the 80s. Tornadoes aren’t particularly common but every 25 or 30 years we seem to get one moderately sized one, and perhaps half that time for a small one.
The fortunate thing about being out in the boonies is that 90% of the time when we do have them, there isn’t a lot of damage to actual human built things. A house or two, maybe a fence or barn, a couple cars and the rest of it is just smashed or uprooted pine trees.
These drills are absolute idiocy tho...sooner or later they’ll find some kid who figures it’s better to die trying and end up with a teacher with a pen driven into their back or eye, or smashed nose and teeth from a heavy book being slammed into their face.
They did this every couple of weeks in public schools in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The bell would clang and you were supposed to assume it was an impending nuclear attack. The teachers never told the kids it wasn’t.
Principal Bartch should be fired on the spot and brought up on charges.
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