When I was in high school they tried to do that, but couldn't get something important for it and instead had a student give a play-by-play over the PA of a drunk accident. Nobody paid attention because it happened between classes.
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It is worth noting that this sort of thing was only done for a very brief period of time. It's not like this is how all American schools have warned students since 1978.
Still hilarious when you look back on it.
2004, we made my buddy laugh when he was supposed to be playing dead and got in trouble lol
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We had an assembly about drunk driving that had a mock scene with a car on the football field.
Then a guy gave a speech about him killing two people while drunk driving and how badly it's affected his life. He made a joke about his school's football team beating ours in the championship that year which incited my friend to scream "MURDERER!" at the top of his tongues
It’s been 5 years and his friend is still pretending to be dead.
I had this at my highschool too. They even flew in a helicopter to take the "dead" students away. They also had a mock funeral and the "dead" students didn't have to attend school for the rest of the week and I'm pretty sure that they weren't allowed to use social media or communicate with anyone at school either.
Nah at my high school we just had kids die in drunk driving accidents every year, usually multiple. I'd say we didn't need a lot of theater around the topic, but well, then again...
Yup. Caused minor PTSD in the actors and I was one of them. A bunch of students still drove drunk though...
In the UK we didn't even get driving lessons.
Our parents paid for us to learn to drive.
I still can't believe American schools teach kids to drive, given their........ attitude to other things. It's just weird.
It really depends on what state you live in. My school only offered summer driver's ed. Only knew one person who took it. I never had a class on how to drive. My parents taught me, I took a written test, a 2hr long seminar on driving safely, and a practical test.
Afaik you have to pay for driving lessons and licensing across the US. Yes maybe you can take classes at the high school, but it’s still paid.
So you pay for the lessons at school?
Or you can pay for lessons at home, and get free lessons at school?
(Sorry -- your comment was clear as to who does the paying).
You pay private driving schools to 1) rent a car and 2) for lessons. There are no lessons offered through normal school itself, save for some select places and maybe some colleges.
If there are some select public schools that teach students to drive, I certainly never have heard of it before. The private driving schools though, yeah, I definitely know those are real. Various insurance companies give discounts to minors with drivers licenses if they pass said school I believe.
We had a day when they simulated a group of students being killed in a drunk driving accident. They still had to come to school, though, so they wore white face paint and weren't supposed to interact with anyone.
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We only had fire drills, where we had to casually follow our teacher outside, stand at the collection spot for ~10min, and then go back in and continue the lesson.
Besides the two times where the canteen burnt the lunch so bad the alarms went off, we once had a suspected bomb alarm during uni where we were told to stay away for a few days while investigations were on, the ones who didn't need any of the instruments anyway. Turns out it was some depressed tween who made joke on reddit or tumblr about wanting to bomb the place.
Good times.
Another funny story -- aside from the fire drills, we once had to evacuate an entire wing of the school because we were testing the energy released by various things (peanuts, paraffin, methylated spirits etc) by setting them on fire and seeing how long it took them to heat up some water to 100 degrees.
It was going fine, until we tried burning 25ml of paraffin, and someone set fire to the curtains in the lab. One moment there was a small pool of paraffin, next moment FIRE RAGING ON THE CURTAINS and the fire alarm ringing throughout the building.
That was quite entertaining.
(I haven't even told you the story about the science teacher who cracked the plexiglass screen. You know the big thick screen they put up in front of "dangerous" experiments to protect the students?
Well the chemistry teacher was doing an experiment with fire and gunpowder and I think he mismeasured the amount he put in, because there was a flame and an explosion and the screen that was supposed to absorb the explosion and protect the students........... not so much -- it cracked and split in two. It didn't shatter but it wasn't entirely useful after that and the class ended a lot earlier than we were expecting.
So -- funny story.
At my mum's school (she taught at a different school than me and my siblings went to) they had regular fire drills. (We had them at our school as well).
But at my mum's school the fire brigade sometimes took one or two students, or a teacher, aside and kept them inside the school during the fire drill, to test whether or not registers were being taken properly.
The idea being that when the register was taken, and little Susie Jones or Mister Smith (the biology teacher) wasn't present, the responsible member of staff would alert the fire brigade and they would go back into the building to "search for the missing person"
However one year they decided to stop doing it, because apparently one of the firemen approached a third year girl (aged 13) and asked if she wouldn't mind going into a cupboard with him, and she KICKED HIM IN THE LEG and ran away screaming about this creepy man who was trying to get her to go into a cupboard.
She attracted quite a lot of attention -- most of the staff and almost all of the students -- and they eventually calmed her down and explained what was going on. She was a little embarrassed but also quite proud of kicking him so hard.
So yeah -- after that they stopped taking kids aside and kept it to taking staff aside because no one else wanted to get kicked.
Yes, but it wasn't fake. Three students died playing drunk motorcycle chicken, two guys and one of them had their girlfriend on the back. The whole school was in mourning and I got written up for pointing out that they were clearly fucking idiots.
No. We were shown why you don't use water in an oil fire. Was a fun practical demo.
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They not only did this whole skit at my high school, they literally had a helicopter from the local hospital airlift the "injured" students off the football field where the assembly was held.
I was kinda jealous of my friend, who was one of the two kids who got to ride the chopper. I've never ridden in a chopper. 🥺
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I think they only did that once every 4 years at the school I went to. They didn't do any funeral stuff, just the crash scene part.
One year they had a student laying on the ground near a car and a firefighter accidentally stepped on her(thought she was one of the dummies?) and broke some of her ribs.
Didn't do shit to stop drunk driving, nor did the victims of drunk drivers that had their lives changed in the accidents.
They did it at my school
This never happened at my school. The school news channel did do a special on it after someone died from texting tho