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School lies to students, tells them friends are dead.
cnn.com — School administrators arranged for highway patrol officers to visit 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to deliver a huge lie to students: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. "They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized,"
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- Idiggapony, on 06/12/2008, -1/+7This stunt was profoundly unethical. You simply cannot inflict this kind of pain upon people. If this had been part of some sort of psychology experiment, or a medical study about grief reactions or something, it not only would have been denied by the ethical review board of the institution where it was proposed, but the researchers who proposed it probably would have been denied the right to do any further research until they had some very intensive remedial training.
The fact that not only highway patrol officers but also teachers, guidance counselors, and administrators were, in this case, so utterly oblivious to the most basic and obvious principles of ethics is quite upsetting. Anyone who agreed to participate in this project should be suspended and kept away from children for at least a year or so, while someone tries to make them understand how human emotions work. - jaw787, on 06/12/2008, -1/+6These "educators" ought to be drawn and quartered. They "think" they know best. I hope they someday become mis-informed that their child is dead.
They should be fired. When will they realize their "students" are human beings and not "subjects".
This is a disgrace. - Taddare, on 06/12/2008, -1/+6"They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized," said guidance counselor Lori Tauber
Do these people even know how asinine they sound? I know high school guidance counselors are a joke but it looks like this person hasn't even glanced at an ethics guide, let alone read one. - inkubusfan, on 06/12/2008, -3/+1wow. that is so effed up. one time my mom told me that she had thrown my nintendo out, same reaction.
- teachdrake, on 06/13/2008, -2/+1Hell yeah!! Speaking using student terms....They were owned!!!
- alapoet, on 06/13/2008, -1/+6What a stupid and thoughtless thing for so-called "educators" to do to kids.
What they are "teaching" them is that it's OK to lie and in so doing deliberately inflict pain on other people.
Shame on them. - Tarrant, on 06/13/2008, -1/+2I cant even begin to describe how f-ed up this is.
Someone should call the school and tell them a student committed suicide when they found out that thier friend had just died.
Make the school officials feel "traumatized" - trestevenson, on 06/13/2008, -1/+3Worst idea EVER.
- DanielAzarc, on 06/13/2008, -1/+2What the hell were they thinking? It's a good thing to impress upon students that drunk driving is bad, but was there honestly no better way to put out that message? That's completely despicable behavior, playing with emotions like that.
- iamstarfox, on 06/13/2008, -1/+0This was truly sick and stupid. It's absolutely unforgivable that people of authority (the school principal, teachers and even police officers) would actually participate in this!
- daonlyfreez, on 06/13/2008, -0/+4Next: Coming to a classroom near you: "Your friends have all been killed in a terrerist attack!"... well, actually, we were lying, but we were only trying to sensibilitize you to the threats of terrerismz.
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