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Educators Stage Gun Threat

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methomps

methomps

an imbecility, a stupidity without name
...and there are morons:

Teachers Stage Fake Gun Attack During School Trip


Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
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During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on locked door.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5301711
 
gregorylee;839332; said:
How in the hell could you not know that an action like this would blow up in your face?
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It still could:

"But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged. "

"Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment."
 
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We staged a "live" drill here a few months ago...the only people who knew it was fake were the District level people,the Principal, and the emergency/police personnel.

It freaked out the staff and students but it also showed a ton of glaring weaknesses in staff members and obvious holes in the emergency plan.
 
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osugrad21;839451; said:
We staged a "live" drill here a few months ago...the only people who knew it was fake were the District level people,the Principal, and the emergency/police personnel.

It freaked out the staff and students but it also showed a ton of glaring weaknesses in staff members and obvious holes in the emergency plan.
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It sounds like a good idea, in theory. But it also sounds like too much can go wrong. A student with a cell phone can call his/her parents, who gets a mob of other parents together, they go to the school to find out whats going on, creating a traffic problem as they're all parked outside. The police, who know what's going on, try to calm the parents, but rumors are flying faster than the police can, and soon you got a riot because the parents want the police to get in the building to save their kids. Plus, who knows who else has a gun in the school? Those kids may try to be heroes, and they blast anyone who looks suspicious.
 
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Zurp;839492; said:
It sounds like a good idea, in theory. But it also sounds like too much can go wrong. A student with a cell phone can call his/her parents, who gets a mob of other parents together, they go to the school to find out whats going on, creating a traffic problem as they're all parked outside. The police, who know what's going on, try to calm the parents, but rumors are flying faster than the police can, and soon you got a riot because the parents want the police to get in the building to save their kids. Plus, who knows who else has a gun in the school? Those kids may try to be heroes, and they blast anyone who looks suspicious.
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That's exactly what happened with the cell phones...it also showed the police they needed to put their roadblocks at least a half mile away on every in-road.

You had some pissed off parents, but most of them realized how useful it was in terms of preparation.
 
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