Cruel scared-straight exercise at California High School

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OMG this just blows my mind!! Apparently school officials thought it would be a good idea to inform the students that over the weekend several of the school mates had died in a tragic car accidents On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. When in the truth of the matter was that it was a hoax! A scared straight con (a cruel one IMO) to teach the kids a lesson in drinking and driving etc A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax, a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/drunken.driving.ap/index.html I'm sorry but as much as I'm all for SOME methods of the scared straight idea THIS WAS CRUEL BEYOND BELIEF!...If my kids school would have pulled a stunt like that I would have raised right royal hardcore hell.....A sneaky cruel trick like that would put my son and daughter completely over the edge! For the school to NOT think of what the consequences might have been just disgusts me to no end....I honestly think that there will be some serious backlash from some of the students over this one...The b0neheads who cooked up this plan may find that there will be damage done... If this happened at your childs school, wuld you be ok with it? If this had happened to you as a teen how do you think you'd react to it?