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Last month, school officials at El Camino High School and highway patrol officers decided to use their lack of collective wisdom and lied to students that several of their peers died in car accidents.
Several students at the Oceanside, Calif., school were shocked and hysterical when told the “news”. However, they didn’t learn the truth until hours later that it was a scare-straight exercise to show the dangers of drinking and driving.
Their grief turned into outrage when they discovered the idiotic ruse when their “dead” friends did a Lazarus impression.
Obviously, school and police officials are defending their thoughtless actions and students and parents are outraged.
And instead of driving home how dangerous drinking is, these idiots furthered the popular teen belief that adults can’t be trusted.
Way to go. Instead of being truthful, these morons shattered a very important trust that young people need as they swim through the uncertain waters of adolescence.
School and police officials really need to reconsider how to help students without making them feel like they can’t go to someone of authority.
With the many problems that students have, from bad grades, an unstable family, sex, and drugs, what today’s youth don’t need are officials, who are supposed to be the go-to-people of problems, who intentionally lie about the deaths of their friends.
Scare-straight programs are great, but not when they traumatize students to the point that it could possibly lead to psychological problems and major trust issues.
It would have been better if the officials presented family and friends of victims of drunk driving and have them tell of the horrific agony that they had to endure. Also, displaying the typical wrecked car from a drunken driving accident is another good visual impression.
But then again, these officials clearly don’t have any common sense if they’re stupid enough to lie to students that their friends died.
Maybe school and police officials can take a class on how to be tactful before they decide to “educate” students by emotionally scarring them for life.