Teachers Stage Fake Gun Attack on Kids

Wow, who came up with that?

And who said "Yeah, that's a great idea"?

There are things that we simply cannot (and should not have to) be "trained" for.

Can you imagine your next flight, a guy stands up waving a gun, kicks the cockpit door in. For the next five minutes your plane makes a series of sharp manoeuvres, but then over the tannoy:

"ahha.. don't worry folks just a little training for ya. Now you won't be so S*** Scared when this happens for real!"

It would almost be funny if it wasn't so damn sick.

For an act like this, these teachers are going to get the book thrown at them HARD!

It is just unexcuseable for teachers of all people to do this to students. With all that has gone on recently, they should feel utterly ashamed that they stooped to this level.

So much for teaching for the rest of your lives

Just watching CNN.

So far a vice principle and a teacher have been suspended until at least this fall.

Originally posted by iori_komei
Just watching CNN.

So far a vice principle and a teacher have been suspended until at least this fall.

If true that is like a non slap on the wrist some schools are already out and the rest will be in the next week or so duh. Probably hoping it will blow over by then and if I were a parent I could assure you it would not be.

How friggin reckless! What a stupid thing to do. I am appaled at the foolishness of these people. Those poor kids are going to have post-traumatic stress disorder. I bet some local attorneys are just lickin their chops. This is another reason for drug testing teachers.

[edit on 14-5-2007 by Dissension]

Originally posted by shots

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

(visit the link for the full news article)



[edit on 13-5-2007 by UM_Gazz]

Good thing none of them play M rated games or watch R rated movies.

LETS BE PERFECTLY CLEAR...

I live in Nashville and go to MTSU in Murfreesboro. When news first broke of this locally (before the national news picked it up) the event was repeatedly described as a 'prank', and that it was intended to be a joke.

The idea that this was supposed to be a training exercise didn't show up until later when the story gained momentum.

They are trying to save face, and make the incident less heinous than it really was. These people are stoopid stoopid stoopid!! I hope they all go to jail and/or get the pants sued off 'em!

NOT A DRILL - NOT TRAINING
IT WAS A PRANK

The Tennessean | Parents upset after teachers' prank goes too far
May 12, 2007

The Tennessean | Board trusts schools chief in prank follow-up
May 13, 2007

The Tennessean | School system says students told to expect prank
May 14, 2007

The Tennessean | Statement from Murfreesboro City Schools about Fall Creek Falls incident
May 14, 2007

[edit on 5/14/2007 by damajikninja]

Originally posted by damajikninja


I live in Nashville and go to MTSU in Murfreesboro. When news first broke of this locally (before the national news picked it up) the event was repeatedly described as a 'prank', and that it was intended to be a joke.

Sorry but you sound like damage control for the teachers involved and I for one am not buying it. They made a stupid mistake and should pay for it no ifs ands or buts about it.

Let me ask you this qquestion, would you like a prank of this nature pulled on your child? I did not think so enough said

[edit on 5/14/2007 by shots]

Originally posted by shots

Originally posted by damajikninja


I live in Nashville and go to MTSU in Murfreesboro. When news first broke of this locally (before the national news picked it up) the event was repeatedly described as a 'prank', and that it was intended to be a joke.

Sorry but you sound like damage control for the teachers involved and I for one am not buying it. The made a stupid mistake and should pay for it no ifs ands or buts about it.

What are you talking about?!? I'm not trying to cover for them!! I'm trying to point out that they made a SUPER DUMB descicion to pull a prank - not a almost as dumb attempt to offer disaster training. I'm saying that its worse than people think! DUH!

When I read your reply the first time I missed your disclaimer. I am sorry I took it the wrong way, that was my mistake.

[edit on 5/14/2007 by shots]

All good man. Sorry for my aggitated response before. I was so dumbfounded as to why you thought I was on the teachers side. lol Had me really confused.

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

Are you saying other teacher's have pulled stunts like this as a Prank? I find that very hard to believe. Do you have some links to show this did in fact happen as a preplanned prank in other cases?

Planned excercieses that were announced I can see but not pranks that were pulled as this one allegedly was.

Originally posted by shots

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

Are you saying other teacher's have pulled stunts like this as a Prank? I find that very hard to believe. Do you have some links to show this did in fact happen as a preplanned prank in other cases?

Planned excercieses that were announced I can see but not pranks that were pulled as this one allegedly was.

Shots, did you miss your Wheaties today? He DID post several links proving he was telling the truth. I know it does sound unbelievable, it's that outrageous. That is really a sick prank to pull on kids. Whatever happened to just telling ghost stories around the camp fire?
If I were a parent I'd be starting a class action lawsuit and going after those teacher's jobs and whoever else approved it.
I rememeber we had "duck and cover" but it was DRILLS, NOBODY ever told us it was real, it was always practice. Same thing with fire drills.

Actually, at this point, I'd most likely be homeschooling my child.

Uhh, I did'nt post any links, I said that before I knew it was a prank, while I still thought
it was unannounced drill.


I did'nt mean pranks, I meant unannounced drills.

According to one student who participated in the trip, Dalton Brown, the assistant principal instructed the students to get under desks and said that they had a "code red" – reserved for when an individual is in possession of a gun, knife, or bomb.
source

Well, if you pull a bomb threat prank it means jail time and this two only received 2 week suspension?

Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
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...

I'm not so sure I'd want a group of "hardened" elementary school kids in every classroom. To "harden" these children would be to desensitize them to guns and deprive them of carefree childhoods. These kids would grow up looking over their shoulder. I think this would lead to more trouble in their later years. I think there's got to be a better way than this.

Originally posted by shots

Originally posted by damajikninja


I live in Nashville and go to MTSU in Murfreesboro. When news first broke of this locally (before the national news picked it up) the event was repeatedly described as a 'prank', and that it was intended to be a joke.

Sorry but you sound like damage control for the teachers involved and I for one am not buying it. They made a stupid mistake and should pay for it no ifs ands or buts about it.

Let me ask you this qquestion, would you like a prank of this nature pulled on your child? I did not think so enough said

[edit on 5/14/2007 by shots]

I think this person was more or less blowing the whistle on the story that wasn't being told. I would think a prank was much more careless and just plain stupid than "training". I don't beleive this person was trying to "spin" the story for damage control.

Its not the children that need training on what to do as much as the teachers,principles,deans and police IMO. Covering the exits and waiting for the school to get shot up before entering is a poor strategy. Immediate entry is a must to save as many lives as possible.

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

shoot that teachers, or just fire them.
this is insane!

[edit on 15/5/07 by cometa]

Though this indeed was not a wise act on the staff's side, you guys are sort of overreacting, especially if I read some posts which state "waving a gun under the noses of the staff as a prank" which I find a EXTREME overreaction.

All they did was say there was someone with a gun on the loose, and that the kids had to lie down, after that, the only thing that happened was that someone was pulling on the locked door.

It's not as if they had people running around wearing balaklava's and holding AK74's.

Nothing different from a prank ghost story, except that ghost has been replaced with gunman, and creepy atmosphere has been changed with "so called threat".

So like I said:
Bad idea? Yes.
Jail / rape / death sentence? No.