Who wants to live in an Orwellian State?
Jun. 18th, 2008 02:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanThese police officers and school officials sure want you to do.
In case you don't have time to read the entire article, here's the bare bones:
One Monday, uniformed police officers traveled from classroom to classroom in a California high school to tell students that 26 of their classmates had been killed in drunk driving accidents over the weekend. The students were, very understandably, shocked and bereft.
Until two hours later, that is, when they were herded into an auditorium, where they found a wrecked car, and their 26 "dead" classmates, and learned that The Powers That Be had done it all for them, so that they'd truly understand how very serious drunk driving is.
Or, as one school guidance counselor, quoted in this article said, "They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized. That's how they get the message."
Really, because I got a completely different message from the whole ill-considered debacle, and I'm sure the grieving and traumatised students did as well. To whit: Don't respect authority figures. Authority figures lie to you. Authority figures fuck with your head.
Great message to be sending to high school students along with all the civics lessons in Gov 201.
That will be all.
In case you don't have time to read the entire article, here's the bare bones:
One Monday, uniformed police officers traveled from classroom to classroom in a California high school to tell students that 26 of their classmates had been killed in drunk driving accidents over the weekend. The students were, very understandably, shocked and bereft.
Until two hours later, that is, when they were herded into an auditorium, where they found a wrecked car, and their 26 "dead" classmates, and learned that The Powers That Be had done it all for them, so that they'd truly understand how very serious drunk driving is.
Or, as one school guidance counselor, quoted in this article said, "They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized. That's how they get the message."
Really, because I got a completely different message from the whole ill-considered debacle, and I'm sure the grieving and traumatised students did as well. To whit: Don't respect authority figures. Authority figures lie to you. Authority figures fuck with your head.
Great message to be sending to high school students along with all the civics lessons in Gov 201.
That will be all.
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on 2008-06-18 01:16 pm (UTC)