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."
We have discussed this on FR before and yeah the teachers needed to be prepared and armed but kids do too. They need strong leaders that can give them cues on what to do. IMO
12 miles is so far outside the blast radius, it wouldn’t have mussed your hair.
Meaning, you were also lied to.
Good point. So do we keep guns off campus or get rid of stupid, idiotic so-called "teachers"?
I went to school in CA from K-5 and I believed them. I thought I would be safe from a nuclear attack if I put my head under the desk and covered my ears and eyes.
Stupid, yes, but I trusted my teachers.
The parents need to hold a little TRAINING SESSION for these idiot “teachers” of their own......show up at school with guns in holsters....to PROTECT their children!
OMG! Poor judgement? How about NO JUDGEMENT!!! After what just happened at Virginia Tech?! I think I would kick someone’s *ss!
On Thursday, the last night of the outing, the staff played a prank on the kids, convincing them there was a gunman on the loose.
A teacher wearing a hooded sweatshirt pulled on a locked door, pretending to be a suspicious subject in the area.
The students were told to lie on the floor or crawl underneath tables and keep quiet. The lights went out, and about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said. Some held hands and shook.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ “ Shay said Saturday afternoon as she recounted the incident. “At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out. (A teacher) told us, ‘We just got a call that there’s been a random shooting.’ I was freaked out. I thought it was serious.”
Do you have a link to one of the discussions, Cindy? I would read it.
With the climate as it is now, I think the more info available, the better.
bttt
The reason for that was because if you were lucky enough to be on the outer edges of the ICBM attack then you wouldn’t be incinerated, and possibly survive if you could avoid the mass amount of debris that would be hurtled.
Just training the kids to submit to the arbitrary demands of authorities. Terrorizing children, for the children. How many of these teachers were/still are schoolyard bullies? No wonder the Bible was kicked out of schools... The phrases “by their fruits ye shall know them”, or “the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel” would clue in all the victims.
Do you know where that picture is posted?
I have mixed feelings on how much burdon we give to children.
They shouldnt be coddled but they shouldt be expected to be adults either.
At anyrate, what these teachers are doing is teaching them to be victims
They went overboard. I agree. If I was a parent of one of the students I would be upset too. If kids know just like fire drills that we do this just in case they won’t be scared but prepared.
Yeah....I always wondered about that too.....a DESK is going to protect ME? From a nuclear blast? I just did the drill to pacify the teacher.
For cmparison, also from Tennesee
>>Mother who pointed toy gun at Church Hill kindergarteners charged with assault
Publish 05/13/2007
By JEFF BOBO -Times-News<<
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=3751915
It could be worse, it could have been a Conservative promoting history via the ol' West and handing out cap guns to the children in promotion of self defense with a touch of gun safety with it.
Oh the horrors that would create.
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