High School Shock Tactics
What would you do if schools asked you, as a teacher, to announce the death of beloved classmates?–but the were really alive!
Read this article from MSNBC.com for more information and tell me what you think.
What would you do if schools asked you, as a teacher, to announce the death of beloved classmates?–but the were really alive!
Read this article from MSNBC.com for more information and tell me what you think.
June 12, 2008 at 11:53 pm
That’s ridiculous! I probably would have told my class beforehand what was going to happen. We don’t scare kids in to learning algebra, why would we scare them in to this lesson?
June 13, 2008 at 12:44 am
I think we need to scare the crap out of students more often. Have you ever seen the episode of Family Guy when Peter dresses up like the fierce anti-litter bobcat? That’ll get ‘em!
June 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm
[...] Zuercher Richard links us to a pretty controversial “scared-straight” exercise used in a California school. i wonder what would have happened if some students in the school had telephoned classmates and pulled the same “prank”? I am guessing they would be in big trouble. [...]
June 16, 2008 at 5:26 am
“We wanted them to be traumatized” Is probably not a good thing for an educator to say.