Thread: Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids

Teachers stage fake gun attack on kids

Sun May 13, 5:28 PM ET

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.


The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip.

"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.

But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged.

"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.

Some parents said they were upset by the staff's poor judgment in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.

During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on locked door.

After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said.

"I was like, 'Oh My God,' " she said. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out."

Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation "involved poor judgment."

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Child abuse provided by your local school system.

If the kids did that they would go to jail

The assistant Principal should be fired. This is beyond bad judgement. I would remove my child from the school if they attended this frightening experiment.

Jaw droppinly bad decision.

Probably scared those kids for life. If a real situation ever comes they won't know.

Horrible.

Our local news just said that the teachers and vice principal were just playing a joke.

This goes way beyond stupid! Everyone of these people should be fired and or sued! What kind of idiots do they have out there?

A joke???
Yeah right!
They were stupid stupid stupid!
Should be some kind of ramifications against these stupid (can't say the word enough) idiots!

Good luck trying to fire any of these incompentent idiots. Teachers union yield all the power.