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.
Read the comments on the article I linked to. One is from a woman paralyzed as a teenager by a drunk driver, in an accident which also killed her boyfriend. Another is from a mother whose teenage son was killed by a drunk driver. THEY wholeheartedly approve of this. The “purpose” of school, quite frankly, should be whatever parents think it should be, and in this case the program had the overwhelming support of parents (only one parent was willing to speak against it, and she wouldn’t give her name, suggesting that she doesn’t have much company).
Well, of course it isn't.
The purpose of school has it's roots in the "social efficiency" movement of the early twentieth century, and is the magnum opus of such upstanding men as Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, and J.P. MOrgan.
Traditional learning forums have always had three foundational purposes:
- teach people to be good - teach people to be good citizens - teach people to maximize whatever talent they have
With the influence of the industrialists, however, a fourth purpose came into being:
- train humans to a uniform set of performance specifications that will produce the greatest number of "middle-of-the-bell-curve" consumers and employees.
Now, you tell me THAT isn't "taking...children apart psychologically" with the FULL endorsement of everyone from parent to Principle, to Priest, and Pope.
Bluntly put, psychological mutilation in the interest of future social efficiency is THE stock-in-trade of modern public education. School doesn't train young minds to be all they can be, it trains them to inhabit a cloth-lined cubicle, or stand at an assembly line dropping the same bolt into the same hole for eight hours every day with just two ten-minute potty breaks, and a half-hour to cram down lunch. Only public education could find within itself the flaming gall to teach children that an establishment like a McDonald's restaurant has something that can be called a "Career Track".
The greatest enemy of the West is radicalized Islam, but public education has a lock on the number two slot.