Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids

[msnicolea]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_us/faked_attack

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.

[LittleFredPunkinHead]

Oh, good gravy... What a bunch of f*cking maroons. Way to traumatize a bunch of kids. How could they not tell that this was a bad idea?

[Sarah]

OMG. Such a bad idea.

At the school where I used to work, we had "lock-down" drills. We didn't need to use guns, and we told the kids it was a drill, and they were very effective. We would designate a teacher to be a "bad person" and roam the school, testing the teacher reaction and the students' reactions. We had each teacher lock down the room, have the kids hide, etc. It was never traumatic. I don't see why the teachers did this- such a bad idea.

[bookworm]

In addition to the overall bad idea, explicitly saying it wasn't a drill may seriously undermine them if (heaven forbid) there is a real event.

[maggieb]

You have got to be kidding me. And not one of the teachers questioned this??? I am a teacher and I would have fought this tooth and nail. And as a parent, I would be livid! People can be so stupid sometimes. Those poor kids.

[MLA]

Wow. That's monumentally stupid.

[sparkle&shine]

POOR JUDGEMENT??? NO Kidding.

Those poor children. I would be so beyond pissed. What the heck were they thinking. I can't even form my thoughts right now just thinking about how traumatized those poor kids must have been. WTF?

[Fenway]

Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment."

Understatement of the year...

[Weddings by]

Wow. I am shocked that somebody would say that it wasn't a drill when it really was. Those poor kids and their parents. I would be so upset for my child's sake. :(

[December27JJB]

Wow, just wow! :eek:

[sea74]

Yeah, the "gun attack" may have been fake but the FEAR and TRAUMA the kids experienced wasn't fake. And for that, the "educators" need to be dealt with :mad:

[charliezangel]

I have a 12 yr old brother in 6th grade and I cannot even imagine how terrified he would be if this happened. I am sitting here crying thinking about him hiding in the dark fearing for his life. It was a terrible thing to do to these students and if I were a parent, I would be hiring a lawyer, immediatly.

[...Shannon...]

This school is in a town not far from me, so it's really making the news big around here. As a high school teacher, I CANNOT imagine what these people (the adults) were thinking. I've tried to put myself in the same situation (in my mind) and wonder if I could have been drawn into something like that, maybe not realizing the impact it would have at the time. But after much thought, I can't for the life of me understand why, given recent events, they thought this would be an okay thing to do. And they can call it a drill after the fact if they want, but it was a prank pure and simple. They said the kids were hiding under tables, crying, praying, calling out for their moms, saying goodbye to each other--it breaks my heart to think of it. There's bad judgment, and then there's . . . well, I don't know what you'd call this.

[thelittlebabu]

Why do secretly wish one of the 6th graders took matters into his or her own hands and seriously hurt the "gun man"? Now that would have been a great lesson those involved needed to learn.

Idiots.

[kam]

A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on locked door.

Yeah, that would've been the first clue that "poor judgement" was involved. Unfrigginbelievable.

[imagirliegirl]

In addition to the overall bad idea, explicitly saying it wasn't a drill may seriously undermine them if (heaven forbid) there is a real event.

Seriously! Didn't they ever read about the boy who cried wolf? :rolleyes:

[snowzilla]

I'm not usually so harsh, but they need their asses canned. There's no way a single one of those asshats involved should be an education professional. Disgusting.

[LyLMyssChaos]

This fiasco is just outright stupidity. Those kids had to be terrified, and those ignorant adults need to be at the very least, fired. Who does something like that?

[chefker]

What the....there are no words, really. :mad:

I can see the need (sadly) in this day and age for an actual lockdown type drill--on school premises--but freaking TELL the kids, and their parents "this is a drill because we need to know what to do in an emergency", etc.

And parents should be notified beforehand, that goes without saying. I would be BEYOND livid if my kid had to endure something like this. :mad:

[karlatta]

I am floored by the stupidity of these teachers.

When I taught high school, we had lock down drills. Even though they were clearly drills (started with a PA announcement stating such), I had students in my classroom who were obviously upset by even the idea that something could happen in their school that would require us to go into lockdown. Every drill was followed by a lengthy conversation with the kids to help calm their fears and reassure them that the school would do everything they could to protect them. And I taught the 17 year olds! I can't imagine how much something like an unannounced drill would have affected 12 and 13 year olds!