Sometimes the wrong thing to do is the wrong thing to do.
A school in Wisconsin wanted to teach their students about the perils of drunk driving. It’s not a bad idea – Wisconsin has a very high number of drunk driving accidents.
But the school’s plan caused outrage – their elaborate scheme was to inform the student body that four of their classmates died. The announcement didn’t go over so well. In a few classrooms, some of the kids lost it while others called their parents.
The announcer even went into detail how one of the victims was rushed to the hospital while giving details. Hopefully, you didn’t forget, this was hypothetical, it wasn’t real, but the students took it as such.
From Daily Mail:
A Wisconsin high school has come under fire for a bizarre ‘safety lesson’ in which they told the entire student body that four of their peers had been killed in a drunk driver car crash, only to later admit it was all a ruse.
The so-called drill was made during the morning announcements last Wednesday at Brodhead High School in Brodhead, a close-knit rural community about 100 miles southwest of Milwaukee.
At the start of the announcement, a male administrator said: ‘We have some bad news. Four students were T-boned, as they ditched school, by a drunk driver.’
Later in the announcement, the same administrator said the students ‘did not make it’ and read out the names of the four ‘deceased’.
As the Washington Post reported, classrooms erupted in shock and upset. Some students were crying, others worriedly called their parents.
…However, about 10 minutes later, the same administrator returned and said the car accident had not happened, and the whole announcement was just ‘a drill about safe driving techniques’.
At least we know it was effective. That announcement will stay with them for a lifetime.
If it saves just one innocent person from being killed, if it stops just one student from getting behind the wheel intoxicated, then I think it was worth it! I don’t see it as something to be mad about. These young people got to witness the emotions without having to do something stupid themselves. That’s the best lesson you can get.
Do you agree of the school’s tactic? Do you think the students will understand the dangers of drinking and driving after this? Share your voices below in the comment section and let us know what you think.
