<p>On Friday we had our pre-prom mock crash and drunk driving assembly. It was out on the football field. They had a whole story that a policeman narrated, about how so-and-so (one of the student volunteers) and his girlfriend (another volunteer) had decided to go out to the after-parties on prom night and they'd gotten drunk, etc., etc., and crashed into a car full of other student volunteers and how everything happens at a crash scene. (The crash scene was laid out on the football field. It would have been more effective if they'd had just a little more gore; the only makeup you could see from the bleachers was the black eye they gave the Danish foreign exchange student--who died in the story. Poor guy had to lie under a white sheet for probably 45 minutes without moving.) He talked about who the "victims" were and what they had hoped to do with their lives until they got killed, got their backs broken, got arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, etc. (since of course the drunk driver was the only one who was able to walk away from the accident). Unfortunately the sound system was terrible, so you couldn't hear the policeman, and the stories (which were all based on the facts about the actual students they used in the demonstration) were the most effective part. But an airlift helicopter did come and land on our football field, along with all the ambulances, police cars, a firetruck and two funeral home vans. The helicopter, at least, was pretty cool.</p>
<p>Then there was an assembly where a father who had lost his teenage son in a drunk driving crash spoke to us. I heard that the girls' bathroom was full of sobbing girls. I took a half an hour, sitting outside with a friend, before going back to class. It was a really devastating story. :(</p>
<p>Does anyone else's school do something like this? Do you think they prevent kids from drinking and driving?</p>