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 The Field Trip From HellPosted on May 13, 2007A school in Tennessee recently staged a drill with a fake gunman during a week-long field trip that left students terrified and in tears. The sixth-graders were told a teacher dressed in a hooded sweatshirt was a shooter on the loose and that it was not a drill. The school’s principal said the incident “involved poor judgment.”
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By rowdy, May 14, 2007 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment
these teachers will not be fired. they are necessary for the teaching of creationism. besides, the children are probably the off spring of a loving brother sister relationship. it is tennessee.
Report thisBy Teacher, May 14, 2007 at 12:05 pm Link to this comment
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I have been a teacher for more than thirty years. What this type of experience does is simply teach students that adults lie… and that they can lie also. It also teaches them not to trust adults. Simply calling it “poor judgement” is not looking at the permanent harm and trauma that may have been caused by this action.
Report thisBy particle61, May 14, 2007 at 11:32 am Link to this comment
local school principals seem to share characteristics of the homeland security ‘professionals’ at the federal level.
redstateupdate previously reported on a similar incident in Michigan, see story-
Students Learn Lesson in Police State Tactics
http://www.redstateupdate.net/full-page/fullpage-archive-77.html
and another example of scholastic enforcement excessiveness from New York, see story-
School Principal’s Behavior Juvenile, Delinquent
http://www.redstateupdate.net/full-page/fullpage-archive-98.html
redstateupdate has kept tabs on the homeland stupidity beat, watching the watchers, tracking the trackers and reporting on over zealous local authorities since 2005, see the crowd control archive-
http://www.redstateupdate.net/crowd/crowd.html
http://www.redstateupdate.net
Report thisfunny, frightening, free
and ‘it’s all true’
By Skruff, May 14, 2007 at 10:54 am Link to this comment
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Historically, adults have always enjoyed scaring children. Guess it’s the bully gene?
Now-a-days, at least since Columbine, some children have decided to turn the tables….
Are you scared yet?
Report thisBy RAE, May 14, 2007 at 9:27 am Link to this comment
“The schools principal said the incident involved poor judgment.”
Ya THINK?
But teachers are human beings first - subject to all the same mental defects as anyone else. The psychological ambiance in the USA these days is TOXIC to HUMAN BEINGS.
Report thisBy Verne Arnold, May 14, 2007 at 3:39 am Link to this comment
This truly goes beyond the pale.
What in the H#@* were these “teachers” thinking? I cannot begin to imagine. “Teachers”, I don’t think so!
Report thisIf they are not fired; it will be a crime. If their teaching credentials are not revoked; it will be a crime.
This is not a simple lapse in judgement…it’s sadistic and cruel and insane.
By Tom Doff, May 14, 2007 at 12:16 am Link to this comment
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Seems to me we can solve this problem the same way we solve all the other problems caused by staffing our educational system with idiots:
Give the teachers and the administrators a raise, that will ‘attract a better quality’ of folks.
(And, sooner or later, the dummies we have now will pass on, so they’ll only be getting the raise for the rest of their lives).
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