{"id":464,"date":"2007-05-14T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2007-05-14T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T21:31:38","slug":"they-chosepoorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"They Chose&#8230;Poorly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/EDUCATION\/05\/13\/faked.attack.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">freaky non-reality<\/a> are our educators swimming in before class?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) &#8212; 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them,&#8221; said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Principal Catherine Stephens declined to say whether the staff members involved would face disciplinary action, but said the situation &#8220;involved poor judgment.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Push the kids in front of a moving bus that stops just in time so they get that all valuable learning about evil, dangerous buses? How about forcing their hands on a stove burner that&#8217;s just rigged to look hot? Assistant Principal Don Bartch said this was intended as a &#8220;learning experience.&#8221; Just what were they expecting the kids to learn? Fear and terror as a way of life? Principal Stephens is right. Sadly, she probably fails to realize it involves <em><strong>years<\/strong><\/em> of poor judgment on the part of educators stretching back decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What freaky non-reality are our educators swimming in before class? MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) &#8212; 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. &#8230; &#8220;The children were in that room in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}