<p>Do they do this at your schools? We just did it on wed. and thur. I knew every one of the twenty four kids they picked to participate (small school). It is by far one of the saddest things I have ever had to sit through. I hope it helped though. SO do your schools do this? Have you guys done it? Thoughts?</p>
<p>What is it?</p>
<p>I did it…a guest lecturer came in. It was pretty sad…</p>
<p>Yet again, what is it?</p>
<p>Wait, is this that thing where they do a mock drunk driving death? Manipulative, ineffectual.</p>
<p>we did a mock crash thats about it</p>
<p>It is a two day program to prevent underage drinking. When the program started every fifteen minutes somebody in the US was killed in an alcohol related accident.
The first day every fifteen minutes the sound of a carcrash would play followed by a heart montiter going beep beep beep beeeeeep. Then the grim reaper would walk into a class room and take one student out and leave a red carnation on their desk. The teacher then read and posted that student’s obituary to the rest of the class. All the students picked to “die” got their faces painted white and spent the day in the gym. The in the middle of the day a car acident was aataged in which three students driving to school were hit by a drunk driver. The entire school has to wach while paremedics try to save the lives of these students.
I was in class when one of my best friends was taken out.
That night the students picked to die stay all togehter somewhere. Their parents are told that their children have been killed. But they knew in advance that their kids would be participating in the program. The kids and parents have to write letters to eachother.
The second day we all gathered in the gym for a assembly. An empty cofin is brought in ehitl Amazing Grace plays. Then the grim reaper walks in with all the kids who “died” after that a parent read her letter to her son. Then some geust speakers got up and talked then a girl read her letter to her parents. Then they showed a video made by tewo students. In the first part it showed the entier school at lunch, in class plying sports, just acting like kids. They then had the three kids in the acident talk about what they want to do when the graduate. Then they showed footage of the accident from the day before, including two of the three stuents being rushed to the hospital CPR being [reformed on them, and then the kids being pronounced dead. It also showed the parents IDing the bodies of their children. The last part of the video had all wenty four partispants saying one at a time “Good-bye Mom, Good-bye Dad, I love you” and dissapearing.</p>
<p>Wow…</p>
<p>That’s pretty…intense. </p>
<p>I’m not if I’d want my school to do that.</p>
<p>Most kids at my school would probably laugh at the whole thing. It’s happened before with these kinds of things, which is why the principal stopped doing them.</p>
<p>//Then the grim reaper would walk into a class room and take one student out and leave a red carnation on their desk.</p>
<p>It also showed the parents IDing the bodies of their children. The last part of the video had all wenty four partispants saying one at a time “Good-bye Mom, Good-bye Dad, I love you” and dissapearing.//</p>
<p>-10 for realism.</p>
<p>**** that. I’d rather do what other schools have done.</p>
<p>The administration tells the school that a couple of kids died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver last night. No one would know it was staged besides the kids, the parents, and the principle. The whole school would morn. Later the truth would come out and lesson learned.</p>
<p>I think my school does this. It’s stupid.
I just drive off to my college class laughing at the stupidity of having to stage drunk driving crashes just to teach students about the dangers of drunk driving. Kids these days…</p>
<p>My schools does not do that. It the 1st time of ever heard of this. But it does reminds of Forensics class.</p>
<p>Oh yeah I think my school does this too. We have S.A.D.D (students against destructive decisions) and people who are a part of that group wear white and a sign on their shirt and not talk for an entire day. This happened in the beginning of the year and all this did was make me think those people were rude for ignoring me.</p>
<p>That seems overly dramatic.</p>
<p>My old teacher had that happen at his previous school, and they made an hour long film about it, basically just filming every scene, the funeral, crash, etc, and he made us watch it. By the end of our class, after watching the film, about half the girls were literally sobbing. It was pretty graphic, and made you think twice about drinking at all. I think its a really effective idea, and I wish my school did it.</p>
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This seems much more effective and less ridiculous since no one knows that it’s fake (in theory).</p>
<p>wow,
this program has a wikipedia article about it</p>
<p>Our school does a thing with a crushed car and helicopters on prom day after making everyone watch a video, but they’d never do the whole “these people are dead but not really” thing…it’d be seen as insensitive since a couple kids from my high school do die every year. one time a girl’s sister died after crashing into a tree in the early morning, and the girl didnt find out until the school announced it and a teacher wrote the name on the board to try and find someone who knew her</p>
<p>We did that two years ago out my school. I was amazed at how emotional an experience it was.</p>