School Fakes Girls Death in an attempt to educate about Spice/Bath Salts

I am a high school senior in a school of about 600 people. On March 29th the school board faked a students death. It was a dramatization of how legal drugs can affect children. Not many staff members or students knew about the dramatization and was lead to believe that it was real. Here is the link to the news report

www.wcti12.com...

Please, tell me if you think that this is acceptable or not.

PAMLICO COUNTY -- She passed out in front of the student body.
After the school nurse performed CPR on her, the paramedics arrived.
Paramedics said they couldn't find a pulse, then pulled a white sheet over the 12th grader's head, and took her out of the auditorium on a gurney.
As the Pamlico County High School students looked on, some crying at the sudden loss of their classmate, the curtains opened to reveal a casket.
Moments later the girl in question appeared and waved to the audience; she was perfectly OK.

www.wcti12.com...

For those who cannot or choose not to listen to the video, here is the article.

Of course, it's always acceptable to lie to get your way.
It will in no way backfire.
There was never a story about the boy who cried wolf. Didn't happen.

ok, read the article. I found it distasteful and probably totally ineffective. Students will not remember the feelings of fear and anxiety and tie it to drugs -- they will remember the anger and angst of being punk'd and tie it to moronic adults.

reply to post by tpeele


well I do agree now kids will think its fake if something really does happen to one of the students in the next few days or weeks

Unacceptable! or ineffectual if you like.

Will just add more mystic and a sense of rule breaking to the new trend, along with publicity to its effects.

They did this when I was in HS 25 years ago with pot, heroin, crack, meth, alcohol, etc. and all it did was make everyone consider them liars. First for lying about the deaths, then about the drugs effects.

They should teach how becoming dependent on drugs destroys lives not the latter.

I see nothing wrong with it. It was a pretty good idea if it has people talking and got that much press. Those bath salts are something I would never mess around with , but when I was 17, that may have been a different story. Kids think they are invincible.

My HS used to stage car wrecks with students , and only a handful of people knew about it. It was to deter drinking and driving I believe.

The only thing I have to say is;

Bath Salts aka Mephedrone is legal... meth basically.


Why?

is it because its manufactured in china actually all that crap pretty much is, the fake "legal buds" incense crap they spray onto god knows what???

a lot better things to have legal.


as for the school doing it, sure whatever works, but kids never listen.

reply to post by tpeele


That was utterly distasteful! Who does that?

I think the matter should be looked into by the school board.

Just a school putting on a display of how they are pumping out brain dead kids. What hope do the younger generations have when adults toss their emotions around like this? Teenagers are unbalanced mentally at the best of times, programmed to rebel, this just throws fuel on the fire and the kids will be left with little or no reason at all to have trust in their elders.

Seems like a religion to me..Scaring people into doing what they think is right...NWO tactic "Fear"....To me fear is a piss poor reason to make people do good. What is Good? What is Bad? Who makes good and bad....If a person is to live a decent life, they will...You don't have to introduce fear into them to MAKE them do your so-called good....

if people want to smoke bath salts in order to get a "meth like high " which is called poisoned in the medical world where your body releases adrenaline and other chemicals cause it thinks its dying, then go ahead and let them, if they die then its one less idiot in the world,.......and before you all target me for insensitivity don't bother i know what i said and if you have a hard time realizing that there are a certain type of soulless, brainless humans out there, that the world can do with out, then you really need to get out there and check it out.

You could sue the school for mental anguish.

They are crazy if they don't think anybody would sue them.

Gosh that John Erickson is HOT!
Call me! haha.
No thats not acceptable, thats outrageous, do they know how much stress and anxiety they caused them? Uncalled for.

reply to post by tpeele


They were trying (although I am sure unsuccessfully) to teach children the dangers of using drugs. I think it is more effective to show children REAL people who have survived drug addiction. To have them tell their stories, to show them how some of them are brain damaged. When I was in the 5th grade ( a long time ago), a 25 year old man came into my class to tell us his story. He did acid one time, it fried his brain so bad that he now has the intellect of a 7 year old. People learn right from wrong and good from bad, by example. If it takes scaring someone in order to get that result, so be it. I would rather my children be scared than dead. And I am so tired of hearing about how "they should sue" that is one of the major problems in the world today. Someone gets upset about something someone else did and they sue. Get over it and move on. People need to lighten up, it's really not that serious.

Yeah, all this does, aside from demonstrate that power corrupts, is teach kids that adults lie about drugs. I don't think that's quite the message they're going for.

The school I used to go to, did this and still does this... they call it Ghost Out... its actually pretty effective... cos I remember it.... but that might be because since I was in JROTC, I was the Keeper of the Dead... I made sure that the dead stayed dead and didn't mingle with the rest of the students for the week... you would be surprised the reactions and mourning that went around the school... kinda funny... there would be 10 students selected at random, and they would be kept to themselves... whats funny is their lil boyfriend and girlfriend would cry their eyes out... even though they could kiss and hug after school...

even still I think its a good thing to raise awareness...
how many high schoolers understand death? most teenagers think their invincible and are reckless... I know... I was once one... Life doesn't have a reset button... if it did, i would push the hell out of it...

reply to post by sixneuproele


The school board had asked the principal to do a presentation on drugs. He then presented the idea to the Superintendent and the board agreed.

Pathetic.
If you want to teach them about the bad effects of drugs etc then do it honestly. Take them to a drug rehab programme during week 1 to see what real addicts look like then take them to a morgue and show them the dead. At least this would all be honest, yes it would still have the shock factor but at least it would be honest. What are they trying to do to kids, teach them that adults are just full of lies and have no real common sense at all, that they like to play with your emotions. It is about time schools taugh properly no wonder kids are growing up emotionally unbalanced and with no morals or values let alone a good education.

Good intentions.... but this is disrespectful to the students.
People are all different, for some young people, being exposed to something like this would be damaging. The resultant mistrust of the world that holds them would have a negative effect on their learning process. In other words, for some students, this would cause them to shut themselves off from the experience of learning.
Of course that's not fair as the negative effects on some of the students could have a profound effect on the course of their lives. But what's more worrying is that learning institutions should be very much aware of all of that and this act seems very ignorant for such supposed professionals who should be very aware of the developmental processes of the lives they have a part in the process of freeing.

So. Good intentions, but...