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Understandably the students become upset. Some break out into hysteria and have to be told the truth. Also understandably, they are really pissed when they are told the truth.
This is outrageous. How can you lie to your students this way? How do you think you can rebuild the trust? What moral authority would you have to tell them what to do after this? I can’t imagine how angered I would be if, at the age of 16, I was told that my friend was dead and it was a lie. Hell even at the age of 21 I would be angered. Imagine a police coming to your door to tell you that a friend was dead, but they were only kidding.
The idea is to shock students into not drinking. Their teachers tell them not to drink or do drugs. As if they would trust anything coming from their teachers ever again. Why would a student believe a teacher when they tell them about the negative effects? They’ve ruined any honest dialog that would have taught these children the danger of substance abuse.
(you can read the whole story in the Weekly Standard)
2 comments:
This is pathetic. Why not truth? I'm a baby boomer...hippie/drugs era was new. My mother was an nurse and she took me to emergency at the hospital she worked in, with the permission of the doctors. I saw a 19 year old boy who had overdosed....the doctor was upset because he said the damage (he saved his life) to his brain was so bad he'd never be normal again....this was real situation and I never ever even considered doing drugs after that.
But, faking deaths, cruel and I don't see how this would do any good once they found out their friends were alive and they'd been duped.
Stupid is what that was.
That is outrageous.
Anonymous's route is much better, because you don't have to fake pain to teach kids that the world doesn't work like a fairy tale. Take them to see someone who has a head injury because they didn't wear a seat belt or a helmet. Take them to see a dying uncle who smoked. If you don't isolate children, they won't have to make up life as they go, and buy into advertising for drugs.
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