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."
Lived so close to ground zero in Flint, MI that we never practiced anything. Everybody, even the kids knew we would be instantly dead.
Everyone knew? You were lucky. No one knew in my corner of the about-to-be-incinerated metropolis. They figured if you knew, you wouldn’t take it seriously. Same thing with the fire drills, only then, the whole world wouldn’t be ending.
What would have been the reaction, if students had pulled this kind of “learning experience” on their teachers?
I had a hearty laugh about smacking the kid with the Bible.
See, you were zealous for God even at a young age!
That kid probably never forgot it. Who knows, maybe he’s a missionary today?
Those big nukes we and the Soviets tested back in the day were very large and heavy, and impractical for use as strategic weapons. The largest warheads ever deployed on an ICBM by any nation were the US 9 Mt W53, mounted atop the Titan II ICBM, and the Soviet 20 Mt Mod-1 warhead, mounted atop the Soviet SS-18 ICBM. All the Mod-1s were decommissioned by 1984, and all the Titan IIs were decommissioned by 1988.
Current strategic nuclear arsenals contain warheads with yields in the sub-megaton range, and rely on multiple, smaller warheads and enhanced accuracy to destroy targets.
Because nuclear war with Russia (or any other nation) is very unlikely, our primary concern is with terrorist nukes, which would be crude and have relatively low yields, probably in the 5-10 kt range at best. While this would be enough to destroy the core of a major city, people living even 5 miles away would survive the blast relatively unscathed. Of course, there would still be the potential for massive fires and societal disruption that could affect those near the city, but outside the damage area.
Bottom line is, if you live 20 or more miles outside a major city that gets hit by a terrorist nuke, you’d probably not know that a nuke went off in the city until you heard it on the news.
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Last time he insulted Jesus in front of me! Too bad for him it was a hardback version of the KJV huh?
Next scrap I’m in, I want you on my side!
Hardcover. You don’t kid around!
OMG - this is horrid..........
TD, thanks for the info. Good stuff.
The “Word of God” isn’t just a sword...it’s a billy club as well...lol...
It was on the front page of today’s Tennessean.
I should ask my parents if I was invited to leave or if they just figured it was in everyone's best interest to get me out of there
Good times, good times :)
Precisely. Anything else is spin, an after-the-fact attempt to excuse a criminal act. This is child abuse and should be prosecuted.
Ha! Not likely. If the past has anything to say about it those teachers will be commended. Don't you know that you are paying those idiots to teach everything but what you send your children to school to learn?
I'll bet most peoples children are more proficient at dressing bananas with condoms than they are at reading, writing and arithmetic. Why shouldn't they be skilled cowards as well?
I'm tellin ya folks. If you love your children you will keep them home and teach them yourself.
What if one of these kids happened to have a pocket knife? Then stabbed to death the hooded imbecile? Justified killing? These kids will live with this for the rest of their lives. Children should never be exposed to morons such as this.
The evil empire was always pretty far behind the curve in most high tech fields, many of which are necessary for ICBM accuracy, so they instead put a lot of resources into building huge dumb boosters with enormous throw weights that could deliver multimegaton warheads that would do the job with a 5 mile miss. Their MIRVs of the 70s ran 1-3 megatons each.
This is called guncontrol?
don.bartch@cityschools.net
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