Monday, May 14, 2007

Bears Riding Bicycles

Here is yet another example of the total lack of common sense in our public school "educators."

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. "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.

Yet, if a student had brought a picture of a gun to school, he would have been suspended or expelled.

3 comments:

Mark said...

So, traumatizing 6th graders possibly for life is what passes for education in Liberalville. Who's teaching the teachers?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I'd be outraged, too! Good grief!

I think I'd make sure I had that AP's home phone number so he can talk my kid down from the nightmares he'd now have.

Sheesh!

Tonto said...

Oh this is a lawsuit. They will be offering the parents a flat sum of money for each for this.

I once had a case where the stupid teacher mooned a group a second graders. Yes MOONED. Dropped his drawers and said get off your butts and get to work...

Anyway my firm represented the teacher and school. So I got the case and this was just a bad situation. So I asked all the parents to meet and asked if an apology, a change in teacher [because you can't fire him], and $2500 a piece would do it and if they signed a release not to sue.

They took it and like moved on.

Thank God! Because this would have been a mess. I saved the school a lot of money and the parents really just wanted an apology.

Honestly there could be a TV show about all the stupid things teachers do everyday. You mouth would drop.