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.

4 Responses to “High School Shock Tactics”

  1. 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?

  2. rzuercher Says:

    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!

  3. [...] 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. [...]

  4. “We wanted them to be traumatized” Is probably not a good thing for an educator to say.

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