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June 17 2008
Police pretend 2 students killed to teach dangers of drunk driving
Shared by Josh BancroftA uniformed police officer went to 20 classrooms El Camino High School in California on Monday and announced to students that several of their classmates had been killed over the weekend in alcohol-related car accidents.
So it's OK to traumatize people, as long as you're trying to help them "get the message"?
Um, isn't that the very definition of terrorism?
He was lying, and he and the school continued to lie about it for two hours to the grief-stricken students. Why? To teach the kids an important lesson about the dangers of drunk driving.
I imagine the students learned another lesson -- that cops and authority figures are liars.
El Camino officials defended how they handled the exercise, saying it gave students the opportunity to experience real grief.Link (Thanks marilyn terrell!) (via Arbroath)"They were traumatised, but we wanted them to be traumatised," guidance counsellor Lori Tauber reportedly said. "That's how they get the message."
