Teachers Stage Fake Gun Attack on Kids

Teachers Stage Fake Gun Attack on Kids

www.charlotte.com

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

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[edit on 13-5-2007 by UM_Gazz]

Scaring 69 Children was totoally uncalled for and in very poor judgement if you ask me. No wonder the parents were outraged, if it were me I would have fired them on the spot.

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(visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 5/13/2007 by shots]

So the Principle Cathy Stephens said it "involved poor judgment"; yeah I guess!!

Sounds like those kids were subjected to psychological terrorism that could scar them emotionally for life.

If I had kids and any of them had of been involved in this "poor judgment"....
Best I not express myself any further.........

I do believe this is the second or third incident like this that I've heard of in the last year
and a half.

Seriously, how the hell do people like this get hired, I mean that's not just poor judgment,
that's stupidity and grounds for immediate firing and revoking of any compensations.

Elementary school kids should never be exposed to things like this unless they are told it's
a drill, and I don't buy any excuse they may say like "Oh we were just trying to prepare them.",
because an such excuse is pure BS, elementary kids are going to listen to the teacher in such
situations, it's not like they're going to go running around and dare the gunman to shoot them.


Things like this just piss me off to no extent, seriously how do these people get teaching licenses?!?

Sounds like a good idea to me!

If people were trained and hardened to handle these kinds of situations, would so many people succumb to gun violence in schools? Training is the best solution to a problem that will never go away.

Although the intent is in the right place, I don't think any 10 year olds will be bringing guns to school. They should have done it on like high school freshmen or something. But I agree that, that young of an age will have some form of mental scars.

Shattered OUT...

A week-long field trip to a state park for elementary school kids? Ah, to be left in the tender care of the agents of the state. Makes ya wounder about al the other neat things they learned that week. and ya really have to wonder about the guillibility of the parents here, too.

Of course, none of the teachers will be punished, as you can be sure they had official sanction for their little trauma-based stunt. Its already written into the educational core curriculum.

I'll just go press my gun to one of these teachers' foreheads and pull the trigger.

Oh look at that... wasn't loaded. Sorry! Just a drill! Makin' sure you were wearing underwear today!

Idiots. I hope someone gets the crap sued out of them.

Originally posted by apc
Idiots. I hope someone gets the crap sued out of them.

GMTA that is one of the first things I was thinking of.

I can see the headlines tomorrow 69 families sue for mental anguish and torture. Should be good for at least a million a piece.

The bad part of this is it is the schools/aka tax payers that will have to pay not the teachers. :shk:

[edit on 5/14/2007 by shots]

Agrees with a previous poster, can you imagine the nightmares those kids are going have over this.

Those teachers should be disciplined or sacked for what they done.

If that happened to any of my kids, I would be calling for them to be sacked on the spot.

The parents should make them pay for the medical expenses, if any of those kids needs psychatric Help.

BAD IDEAAAAAAA

The story is now gathering momentum but what really surprised me is The BBC is the only one out of roughly 335 that claims the students were warned to expect a "campfire prank"

Now how on earth can the BBC have learned this yet no one else mentions it at all? Sounds like tabloid journalism to me

[edit on 5/14/2007 by shots]

For cryin' out loud. What in the hell were these people thinking. Students crying and hiding under things for 5 minutes? WTF! Didn't somebody think "Hey, maybe this isn't such a good idea."?

I’m staying so mad here.

Our society is so messed up. We have to remember one thing here tough. It’s our own government scaring us.

This school is a government school.

Our schools and the government is training our children to be very hard and non filling.

Training them that searches is the way life is.

Training them to be submissive to everything they are told.

Teaching them totally different than what we learned.



[edit on 14-5-2007 by Shar]

What a crock. "Poor judgement" is an understatement. In light of recent events, you would hope that the teachers we entrust our children to would have an inkling of better sense.

My heart goes out to those poor students who were traumatized. Lord only knows how much therapy they'll need to get over this!

This is a long way from just a couple of teachers and a prank on kids. This is F.E.M.A. in all it's totalitarian glory. This action scars not only the participants but forments fear and conditioning toward a police state society. Every school kid in America is affected in some way. Ugly, arrogant and 'in your face'.,that's the North American Union. How do ya like it so far?

Originally posted by YIAWETA
This is a long way from just a couple of teachers and a prank on kids. This is F.E.M.A. in all it's totalitarian glory. This action scars not only the participants but forments fear and conditioning toward a police state society. Every school kid in America is affected in some way. Ugly, arrogant and 'in your face'.,that's the North American Union. How do ya like it so far?

YIAWETA, at one time I would have thought that your post was just paranoid rambling. Not anymore! I wouldn't be surprised to learn that
the Office of Homeland Security has passed down directives to the school
systems, to actively pursue this type of "theater" to "condition" students to terrorist attacks. Remember "duck and cover?"

Two problems. First, the schools have no right to subject children to such emotional distress (perhaps even with the assent of the parents). Second, what exactly was the pedagogical point here? That wasn't mentioned in the article. Was it to harden them? Teach them about gun violence? The whole thing seems strange to me--beyond the inherent strangeness.

whaaa,
It's duck and cover intensified, brought home to roost. The tptb aren't satisfied with our youth merely being fearful of an imaginary boogeyman 12,000 miles away we need immediate hands on fear mongering emitting from the adjacent room.
Notice also it was Murpheesboro, Tennessee and a public school. This would never happen in Conn. at a private school. Clearly a location of least resistance. I'll bet you'll find not one parent is an attorney or physician, not one! These events will continue, after all they're federally funded.Your tax dollars at work.

Wow. What a bunch of idiot school teachers. If the school was going to pull a stunt like these they would've been wise to get parental permission first. So those parents who didn't want their kids to think they were going to die could have pulled them from the field trip.

Don't know the laws of good ole Tenn but in my state this would qualify for "terroristic threats" and if the used any object to indicate it was a gun (regardless if the object was a gun or a wallet) they would meet the requirements for brandishing.

The more I think of it all they have really accomplished is that if there is ever a day when a gunman is runnng around their elementary school these kids will think the nutty staff is playing games with them again.

Whatever happened to LEARNING at school?

FEAR MY AUTHORITIE!.....Training for good subservient , grovelling schlumps. And I thought the nuns in the 70's were fascists.

This is an outrage. Me being born in Tennessee and living there practally all my life. Even at one time I lived in Murfreesboro TN. And right now I'm retraining myself from totally bugging out. That drill was a terrible idea. Oh yeah lets pretend theres a gunmen about to bust in and call it a prank. HAHAHA(Not real laughing believe me) With the kids crying while huddled under the desks scared out of their minds. Real smooth.