[Hegemony Cricket]

Not cool.

[Polybius]

Is there a lawyer in the house?! Is there a lawyer in the house?!

[SampleMan]

I’m sure the teachers wouldn’t mind if a student told them that another teacher had been killed in order to really stress the moment.

[isrul]

Yep. Lying will really build credibility.

[TexasCajun]

PUNKED !!

[MEGoody]

Sounds like a money-making opportunity to me. Can you say lawsuit?

[mnehring]

This isn’t a new tactic. I remember something very similar to this happening at a private school I attended in high school many, many years ago.

I frankly don’t see the problem with it. It was a dramatization.

[The KG9 Kid]

M.A.D.D. did a theatre scene behind our high school and got the jock-clique captain of the water polo team (and student body president) to act like he'd wrecked his car and was injured while a cop pretended to go through his car and find beer cans and bottles of booze. They performed a fake arrest with handcuffs, had a smashed-up car as a prop, the water polo captain had a bandage around his head with fake blood, the whole bit.

It didn't go very well because hundreds of parking lot stoners in Iron Maiden shirts were laughing and hooting derisively yelling that they hoped his head went through the windshield, "Don't worry, his brains are in his ass", that he was a stuck-up retarded jerk anyway, and started shouting 'Don't take him alive!' to the police sergeant who blew the act when he started laughing his ass off.

The mid-80s was a different time in Southern California.

[metesky]

"You feel betrayed by your teachers and administrators, these people you trust," said 15-year-old Carolyn Magos.

Trust your instincts, kid. That's the real lesson here.

"But then I felt selfish for feeling that way, because, I mean, if it saves one life, it's worth it."

It only took you a heartbeat to betray yourself.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt

[donna]

This is the state proving that they own our children.

Pure ownership.

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are run by government idiots.

[Joe 6-pack]

I note, as another FReeper did on the original thread, nobody knocked on the door of any of the cop's houses to tell their wives that their husbands had been killed in the line of duty.

Perhaps they should build that onto the scenario for next year, just to make sure the families appreciate the gravity of how risky a profession police work can be.

[rabscuttle385]

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax — a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.

Oh? I thought the leftists in education and elsewhere were firm believers in the fallacy that "the ends justify the means."

[Grizzled Bear]

Jeez. When the teachers aren’t having sex with students they’re scaring the hell out of students.

Sometimes both at the same time...

[PLMerite]

This can serve as a lesson for all the lies authority figures are going to tell you later in life.

[I see my hands]

To: Lori Tauber

"we wanted them to be traumatized, that's how they get the message"

Maybe someone has a message for you.

[swarthyguy]

>>we wanted them to be traumatized

Where are the grief counselors?

How many kids do you think decided to go out and get drunk after this.

Don’t believe everything you hear, kiddos.

[Leo Farnsworth]

This show:

http://www.archive.org/details/WAROFTHEWORLDS2 (free mp3 download)

scared lot's of folks (morons, mostly).

To me this is like the police crying: ‘WOLF!’ now these youngsters will have even less faith in the police.

[CGTRWK]

A boy’s doodles of stick figures with guns are so traumatic and threatening to the mental health of the other inmates that the perpetrator needs to be expelled... but public employees in a position of authority telling you your friends are dead is just a valuable teaching tool.

These people should be filing for unemployment next week.

[GovernmentShrinker]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/comments?type=story&id=5005097

This ABC News story has a long comment section afterwards, with comments from a lot of parents, including a couple who have children at this school. The parents are overwhelmingly supportive of it. I’m not going to fault the school officials for it, when parents were involved in planning and executing it, and there seems to be little or no protest from the other parents.