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Thursday, October 17, 2013
News / Opinion N.C. middle school hires fake gunman to teach kids a 'lesson'
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:01 PM
Now that the fever in D.C. has temporarily broken, we can go back to marveling at the sheer imbecility of someone other than politicians. Imbeciles, for instance, such as the administrators at Eastern Wayne Middle School in Wayne County. Parents there are understandably mad as hell after the middle school's officials arranged for a "fake" gunman wearing a ski mask and brandishing a fake gun to enter the school. Students - 6th graders, mind you - were terrified when the "gunman" also pretended to rob students at gunpoint. School officials say the whole thing was supposed to be - get this - "an enrichment exercise" to "teach students to be aware of their surroundings." No word yet on whether the officials also wanted to keep students from ever going back to those school surroundings, but one hopes not.
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This is almost too obvious to point out, but anyone employed by a public school system who thinks it's appropriate to fake armed robberies against 6th graders needs to be fired, and pronto. Some Wayne County school officials say the whole thing was "a bad idea" (you think?). One unnamed school official, however, who was interviewed by a local TV news crew (see video below) says he thinks "the exercise in its original intent was appropriate," but the way it was executed "lacked judgment." In other words, let's blame the guy we hired to terrorize children. Because nothing denotes commitment to quality education like traumatizing the kids. Or didn't you know that? The other mind-boggling aspect of this debacle is that parents weren't warned in advance of the fake attack, nor were they given a chance to let their children opt out of it. Anyone else remember schools having to get written parental permission before giving kids aspirin?
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