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Teachers stage fake gunman attack on sixth-graders
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) -- 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.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.
"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged. (Watch student recount incident, mother react Video)
"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.
Some parents said they were upset by the staff's poor judgment in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.
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 a locked door.
After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.
"I was like, 'Oh My God,' " she said. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out."
Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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Posted in: News on May 14, 2007 @ 12:00 AM
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those stupid idiots.
Just goes to show what teachers can get away with.
Holy shit...If one of the students had freaked out and gotten hurt, the teachers would probably be arrested. That's just insane, those poor kids.
bet if the students had done that it would be verrrrrra different
Not. Fucking. Cool man. I remember in 5th grade I had to take care of these little kids after-school because some idiot with a gun decided to get close to school and take someone hostage. They were crying. Kindergartners, first graders, and other underclassmen.
"a learning experience" HOW?!