May 15th, 2007 teachers stage shooting on kids
Teachers convinced 69 sixth-grade students from Scales Elementary School that there was a gunman on the loose. One official has said the exercise was intended as a teaching tool.
The students were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. After the lights went out, some of the children began to cry. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, pulled on locked doors.
Bartch, who was present, has said the scenario was intended as a learning experience and lasted only five minutes. “We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation,” he said.
What is going on in America’s grade schools? This story outraged me like no other. It underscores a problem with elementary and middle school teachers I have been suspecting all along. None of them are really the intellectual types, and put more focus on this type of bullshit than actually teaching itself. They also tend to be the type of bonehead teachers who care more about “disciplinary action” and enforcing rules than actually trying to enrich the kids with an intellectual and worthwhile experience. No wonder American schools are falling behind. Surrounded by teachers like this, what student is actually going to enjoy learning.
We need more intellectually and academically oriented teachers in schools. If anything, these teachers should be scaring the crap out of their kids with challenging material and lots of homework. The problem is that most teachers themselves in elementary and middle schools haven’t been challeneged intellectually before and they don’t know what academics is all about.
