"During a fire drill at a middle school in Worcester, England, students aged 10 to 13 looked on in horror as "as a man appeared brandishing a gun and appeared to shoot dead Mr. Kent, their science teacher, as he ran across a field." It was only ten minutes after the shooting that teachers revealed the whole thing to be fake. The exercise was apparently "intended to teach Year 8 pupils how to investigate, collect facts and analyse evidence." They couldn't have just pretended to lose the class rabbit, or something?"
Found the article here.
...Incredible. If this were just a prank, I might think it was funny. Actually, I still think it's funny, but that's beside the point. This is demonstrative of a tendency amongst adults that is becoming more and more common. We want our children to be grown up without them leaving home.
The parents of these children may not have been involved, but it's a tendency nonetheless. Why on earth would they make these children aware of such an adult situation at such a young age? They aren't even capable of reacting properly at this point of their lives, so what's the point of scaring them? It's the same idea with sex and drug ed. Kids younger and younger are being taught about it by a biased source likely before they've even been exposed to it. What's the point?
And what kind of evidence did they expect the kids to analyze? Fingerprints and blood samples???
Let kids be kids. There's no need to scare them yet. The world will do that eventually anyway, so let them have this time to themselves.
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