Teachers Defend Tactics In Hoax DUI Stunt

[Paladin]

I agree with those who say it was worth it. If it saves a life then so be it...it's more important than hurt feelings in my opinion.

 

[southcitymom]

I know that i am new to these forums. But i would like to let yall in on a clue. Have you ever heard of a dose of reality? Has anyone here ever had a friend or a loved one killed in a drunk driving accident? I am sure some of you have. When i was 17 my best friend was killed in a drinking and driving accident. And well i found out through my parents while i was at work. To be honest i only wish that they would have had somthing like this when i was a kid. Maybe wake some of these kids up, make them feel what every parnet that has a child that is driving age is scared to think of everytime they hear "MOM IM GOING OUT" ok no not my child thats alot of the response i have heard parents say. Ok well my parents were the "OH NOT MY CHILD" needless to say every weekend i was "spending the night" at my buddies house i was drinking. you know the same buddy that i was "spending the night" at is the one that is now dead. The only reason i was not with him the night he was killed is because i was playing in a football game! Aside from that i would have been with him! ok i had a dose of reality and well i stoped the drinking thing. now at 37 i dont "drink" now i do occasionally have a beer but not often. The area that i live in (south east texas) had somthing of a simular nature. several of the senior students were involved in it and no one knew. it is on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwI3cWEtdTY i ask that you watch it. ok a little shock some tears a little freakin out. But if you could make a child and yes kids in high school are still children think about, maybe see, and or feel what you as a parent may ever have to go through wouldnt you do it? i for one would encourage this. If you could save one life maybe your own childs life would you? Or are you one of those parents that say "NOT MY CHILD" please understand i am not trying to make anyone mad on here and my heart goes out to any of you that has lost a child or a loved one in anyway shape or form. I just feel you can talk to someone till you are blue in the face with nothing sinking in, or maybe put them in a situation where the are faced with somthing so tramatic that it gets their attention. maybe they will think before they drink that beer or light up that joint. think about it

Welcome, Blaine. Thanks for posting and I am so sorry to hear that about your friend. I have also lost friend in high school/college to impaired driving.

For some people. Scare tactics like this school used may have an impact. They wouldn't have had one on someone like me, but certain personalities might have taken the message to heart. That said, I think the VAST majority of teens/young adults feel invincible to the core of their DNA. I do not know that much can be done to change that and I do not agree with trying to prank that message into people.

 

[kygal]

I to am sorry for the losses of your friends. Ok yall did not need the program but the reason i see is why need the program if case in point you and your classmates lived the real thing. I agree kids will be kids but from what i have heard it made a impression on the kids at this school. The area i live in just north of willis texas is a town called new waverly. I would be willing to bet that most of you in BIG towns has as many kids in your elementry as we have in both of these small towns whole school distrirct. You made quote sayin "we thought it was a joke and excuse to get out of class." ok but if you did not know about it would you make a joke out of it? if was just spring on you? not all the kids new what was going on. as for takin time out of the day well towards the end of the year what really goes on? not too much. take time out of the day. remember pep rallies? ok those took time out of the day. I am not tryin to sway anyone to think this is right. I beleave that is was somthing that may have helped some kids to make a better choice. TO be honest i would have much rather been told my best friend was killed in a accident. yes i would have been put into the state of shock i would have cried all the things that someone goes through in loosing someone they care deeply about. Then to find out he was infact alive and that is was somthing to get the point across. PISSED? oh yes very much so but i think i would have learned a lesson. Seems to me that no one has cared to mention that there were counselers and other ppl for the kids to talk to afterwards. If someone is to report on a topic make sure you get all the facts in every detail. All i know is if when my 11 yr old son gets to the age of driving i hope that he does not have to go through what you and i have with loosing friends. Also if i had just one shred of hope that showin him somthing like this would stop him from drinking and driven i would do it in a heart beat.

ok i will get off my soap box. i just guess its where your from is how you feel

We didn't have pep rallies -- actually I can only remember one time we got out of class for anything. Pictures were done after school or during the summer for Seniors. I should also note that when the program was done here not many kids did know about it -- it was done with only the kids doing it knowing when it was to start. We got it pretty quick though. And they only got about 10 kids to do it because of the disruptions. I don't know about where you live, but here the kids learn up to the very last day -- there is no wasted time.

No, I don't care if this works or not. It is WRONG to make a child go through those horrendous moments after learning that their friend was killed. I mean -- when my friend died (the other friend died about three weeks after the earlier one in a freak accident) I was just physically not able to be at school for a week -- and had to be taken out of school that day in an ambulance becuase I went into shock. Did this school have paramedics there READY for this type of thing to happen? I doubt it. When I did go back, I was only able to do to the office and no further for two or three days. Did they think about the emotional damage this could do? I doubt it. Sometimes just the shock value of a lesson does NOT mean that it's the RIGHT thing to do. I think they could have done something else that would not have done that. Sorry, but that is my opinion on it. I'm not going to change it and this is my final word on the subject.