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."
At a minimum I think some teachers are going to lose their jobs.
My bad. The weapon I was thinking of was tested at less than it’s maximum possible yield for logistical reasons, but the yield tested was not over 100MT, but just over 50. 100+ MT would have been the maximum.
~SIGH~ Alas, no. I have only a daughter and she is now happily married for the past three years. I taught her to shoot when she was 10. She now has a Ruger SP101 .357 magnum for her home. My biggest challenge was to bring her new hubby up to the standards I set for her many years ago.
“Im sure that somewhere there are teachers who do a really top-notch job, leave their politics at home and produce excellent results. All we ever hear about though, are the fools, the self-appointed political officers and the automatons with no judgment, common sense or sense of proportion.”
I’d go so far as to say most i’ve come across do a good job and care about what they do. As you say the only ones we hear about are the bad ones. A similar situation is the highways. We don’t hear about the millions of cars that take I-40 from Wilmington to Raleigh a year safely, we hear about the one or two who die.
You would have been a lot safer from glass and 'fabric' shrapnel, no doubt about it. People always assume that they'd be in the area of the fireball with a 100% death rate - but of course the largest area affected by any explosion is around its periphery.
Well, the cultural Marxists have deployed the 'education bomb' against us, commencing with The Frankfurt School in the late 1930's, and progressing into the NEA. It's a slow process, but it's been working well for them.
VOUCHERS!
Sanctioned by the administrators, if not promoted by them. I wish I were in the faculty meeting discussing THIS one, LOL!
Seriously! What sick f*cking bastards! Why is it that people in positions of authority over children often are the people least equipped to deal with them?
“But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged”
.......they are 11 yr. olds, but what you said still applies.
Being passive is the worst approach. Even the Japanese knew invading the US was pointless. “Behind ever blade of grass will be an American with their rifle.”
We are teaching are kids to die on their knees in a world more dangerous than ever before.
What I still can’t figure out is why that moron at VT wasn’t rushed by kids and disarmed. They actually lined up so that he could shoot them.
I’d tell my lawyer, “Make sure everyone from the principal on down is unemployed, and money is no object.” The principal actually tried to spin it this AM. Couldn’t believe it.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress. Civil rights violation because it was done under color of law, so attorney fees apply.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress. Civil rights violation because it was done under color of law, so attorney fees apply.
So basically, the irresistible authority figure tells the 11-year-old children, "Someone may be coming to murder you in a moment, so just lie still and wait."
Yeah. You are going to die if you don’t do something.
One of my principles of life has been ‘give the average person even a little power and influence, and they will likely go berserk.’
Yet another example.
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