I’m sure the spouses and older children of police officers are well aware of how dangerous it can be. They’re also well aware that the purpose of the work justifies the risk. That’s quite different from the purpose of partying teenagers drinking and driving. Many police officers suffer permanent psychological scars from things they see at the scene of drunk driving accidents — much deeper scars than any of these kids will suffer from their brief involuntary participation in this well-intentioned hoax.
Here is the point.... did the parents give permission for their children to be either used or be victems of this “life lesson?”
What if there are kids in that school that had lost parents or brothers and sisters to a drunk driving accident....
” er... uh....hmmmm maybe not such a good idea”
They may know it on an intellectual level, but the purpose of this excercise was to bring it home on an emotional level.
So I'm with Joe here, I'm sure that a policemans family knows intellectually that he may be injured or killed, but they really haven't experienced the emotional impact such an event would have.
If it is good for the children, it certainly is reasonable to consider that it may be 'good' for the family of a police officer.
I don't think it's good for either, and someone should get a severe reprimand.
Why are school teachers so dumb?
The purpose of school is not for a bunch of cops and school employees, with the "permission" of idiot teenage participants, to take other children apart psychologically.
The people who planned and executed this don't look to have two decent brain cells to rub together.
I'm sure that anyone present who had suffered a loss at the hands of a real drunk driver or who had recently lost a loved one in any other way found this entire exercise hilarious. I'd strongly encourage them to show their appreciation by suing the school system.