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Roll it Up!

May 14 '07

Permalink 12:45:05 am, Categories: Right-Winger Wringer  

By now most have heard that some fucking moron faculty members at a Murfreesboro Elementary school "staged" a fake School Shooter rampage on their own students. Trouble is, they didn't warn anyone.
FUCKING IDIOTS!

This was terrorism. Plain and simple.
Those kids were genuinely terrified/terrorized and that is all it takes to make a bad joke terrorism. These stupid fucks are teachers?! How does anyone get a job teaching with such abysmal better judgment?!

These fucking low-life scumbag idiots should not only be fired but they should be jailed too. There is no excuse for such a cruel and sadistic prank, especially coming from those in a position of trust.
In just a short time after the VT rampage, this was a very, very bad idea. A child could have panicked and hurt them self badly.
This is just another reason that Tennessee education is the laughing stock of the nation. Where do we get these fucking goons from??!!!

Fire them. Fire them all and forbid them to ever teach in the public school system again.

Here's the whole article from the Tennessean...

Sunday, 05/13/07
Teachers' phony attack upsets Murfreesboro students, parents
Prank during trip had 6th-graders taking cover

By NATALIA MIELCZAREK
Staff Writer

MURFREESBORO — Parents of students at a Murfreesboro elementary school are outraged that teachers and an assistant principal staged a phony gun attack on their children, telling them repeatedly it was not a drill, while the children cried and took shelter under tables.

Sixty-nine sixth-grade students from Scales Elementary school were on a weeklong trip at Fall Creek Falls, a state park about 130 miles southeast of Nashville. On Thursday, the last night of the outing, the staff played a prank on the kids, convincing them there was a gunman on the loose.

A teacher wearing a hooded sweatshirt pulled on a locked door, pretending to be a suspicious subject in the area.

The students were told to lie on the floor or crawl underneath tables and keep quiet. The lights went out, and about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said. Some held hands and shook.

"I was like, 'Oh my God,' " Shay said Saturday afternoon as she recounted the incident. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out. (A teacher) told us, 'We just got a call that there's been a random shooting.' I was freaked out. I thought it was serious."

Some parents said Saturday they were outraged, especially in light of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 students and professors dead, including the gunman.

Scales Elementary Principal Catherine Stephens held a meeting Saturday afternoon at the school to discuss the matter with a handful of concerned parents who contacted school officials Friday night.

She said she was saddened by the situation and that the school was handling it, though she declined to elaborate on whether the teachers involved would face disciplinary action.

'Poor judgment' blamed

Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip, said the entire scenario lasted about five minutes, after which the teachers gathered the students and explained it was a prank.

"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," he said.

Several parents said they were troubled by the staff's poor judgment.

"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.

"This was not a good experience," said Alisha Graves, whose son attended. "Those kids were crying, and they were terrified."

Brandy Cole said she found out about the incident shortly after her son returned home from the trip Friday afternoon.

"I was shocked," said Cole, whose husband, Jimmy, immediately sent an e-mail requesting a meeting with Bartch.

Barbara Corbetta, whose child also went to Fall Creek Falls with the group, said she spoke to several different parents and kept hearing the same details — kids on the floor crying and begging for their lives.

"The circumstance that occurred involved poor judgment," Stephens said. "My hope is that we can learn from this, and in the end, it will have a positive result of growth for all of us."

Shay and her mother, Niki Morris, said they forgave the teachers and wanted to move on. It "went too far because it was too gruesome," Shay said. "You'd think a teacher wouldn't do it, but they did. But they're great teachers. If (the assistant principal) loses his job, I will break into tears. He's the best assistant principal I've ever had."

Kathryn Sherrod, a Midstate psychologist who works with children, said she can see how kids could be traumatized by this, especially in light of the Virginia Tech shootings.

"That's too close to real," she said. "It's important for teachers and school administrators to realize they have a degree of trust with children. When you play a prank of that nature, you run the risk of losing that trust."

FUCKING IDIOTS!

Comments, Pingbacks:

Read this you angry man.

http://www.cityschools.net/schoolsites/se/index.html
PermalinkPermalink 05/14/07 @ 10:31
Comment from: Madeleine [Visitor]
They can try to justify it all they want. Thank God my kid doesn't go to that school. They'd be facing legal action from me, and paying my kid's therapy bills. While I agree the media sensationalizes things, this was far more than "poor judgement". I would never allow my child to be a student in the classroom of any of those teachers.

What idiots.
PermalinkPermalink 05/14/07 @ 10:52
Comment from: Steve [Visitor]
You've got to be kidding me with that press release Pingbacks. Un-fucking believable. Rather than take full responsibility, the school district tries to minimize it with a "we were just joking" excuse. The asshole vice principal should be out on his ass immediately. Maybe they could tell all of the fucks involved that they're fired and will face legal action, and then wait a week before telling them it was "just a joke."
PermalinkPermalink 05/14/07 @ 16:03
Jesus... Are you ppl for real?
First of all, I trust the school more than the mass media. Schools educates children, mass media makes profit.

And second of all, what do you thing kids are made of? Glass? Porcelain? Do they break and fall apart if you don't wrap them up in fluffy things? You know, there is more to life than ice-cream, flowers, small bouncy white clouds, puppies playing around and endless happiness. Sometimes some of the best experiences isn't always the funniest expreiences.

If you raise you children to be spineless wussies, they will be spineless wussies. And I'm sure they rather not be, if they could choose.

Thank God i didn't have parents like you. Sorry, but thats the honest truth.
PermalinkPermalink 05/14/07 @ 16:50
Comment from: captainkona [Member] Email · http://tn420.org
Our view is this...

If the faculty of this school wanted to take precautions and prepare the students for such a disaster (which is impossible), they should have coordinated the effort with law enforcement. That's all there is to it.

These idiots are not qualified to instruct in such a manner and therefore accomplished nothing other than to betray the trust of parents and students alike.

If someone who is defending this extremely foolish action on behalf of the school, could tell us exactly what students learned about surviving such an attack, please do.

Such readiness can only be taught by qualified civil service or military personnel. Not some hick teachers with no better sense than the average sixth grader.

There is no argument on their behalf. They should be fired and it should be looked into if they violated any laws. And if so, locked up until their IQ goes up a few dozen points. Had a child been hurt during a panic, the defenders of this action would be singing a very different tune.

This was sheer stupidity and stupidity is dangerous to children.
PermalinkPermalink 05/14/07 @ 19:09
Comment from: newscoma [Visitor] · http://www.newscoma.wordpress.com
Shit, I've been out of pocket and just read this for the first time this morning.
this is absolutely outrageous.
PermalinkPermalink 05/15/07 @ 07:33
Comment from: Hey [Visitor]
Well, TN420, if you choose to rely entirely on the media, that's your choice. A quite stupid choice in my subjective opinion, but still.

But if you choose to give the school at least a tiny little bit of respect by making the effort to bypass your everyday prejudices (a immense effort for some people, sadly), doesn't the school's version makes much more sence?

Why do you choose to swallow the medias version without any hints of the slightest critical thinking? Have you been abused by teachers when you were young? Is that why you so eagerly join in with the witch-hunt for sadistic teachers who thinks it a great deal of fun in scaring kids?

As I said, I rely on the schools version of this, and by doing so, my opinion is that this was not a "drill", as you appear to beleive. This was a annual prank, where tree or four kids unfortunately got upset, causing their overprotecting parents to go beserk. They contacted massmedia, they blow this story up into ridiculous proportions and it all ends up in two teachers suspended for nothing and yet another blow to the integity of the american society.

I've got two tips for you people: 1. Don't trust the mass media. 2. Learn critical thinking. Next time it might be something worse than a scared child. Like starting a war for example...

And TN420, I've got a special tip for you. Don't write like you do in the above comment if you want (intellectual) people to take you serious. "Idiots", "hick teachers with no better sense than the average sixth grader", "locked up until their IQ goes up a few dozen points" etc. That only makes YOU look stupid.
PermalinkPermalink 05/15/07 @ 17:26
Comment from: captainkona [Member] Email · http://tn420.org
To Hey....


"The Media" didn't get these fools suspended. LOL

They were suspended because their behavior was irresponsible and dangerous to children.
That's what matters, the kids. Not the faculty and not the way you feel about it. The kids matter.

Are you a Republican, by the way? That would explain your lack of concern for children. Republicans are well known as the foremost abusers of youth.
I'm willing to wager that the faculty involved all voted Bush in '04. Maybe not, but they fit the profile.
It could also explain why you're willing to take the word of those who have the highest motivation to lie.
I'll bet you believe everything Bush says too.

You can waste your breath trying to defend these rubes all you wish, what they did was back-assward ignorant and nothing you can say will change that.



PermalinkPermalink 05/16/07 @ 13:09
Comment from: Hey [Visitor]
To TN420

Okey… How the hell can you judge these people? You don't know a shit about what happened except for what the media has told you, don't you?

Have you been totally brainwashed to believe everything you see on TV or read in the newspaper, or are you just plain ignorant?

Seriously, the problem with america are people like you. People that likes to be angry and upset but don't give a fuck about even checking the facts and believes ”self-criticism" is some philosophical mumbo-jumbo.

Am I republican? Well, kinda. I'm usually with the democrats, but I saw this youtube video with Ron Paul today (top of highest rated) and it would be a dream come true if he were to be the next president, as for what I’ve seen of him so far. He's a republican, so I guess you can call me republican.

Do I believe everything Bush says? No. I do not like Bush. The reptile brain in me would love to see him assassined, seriously, but the more civilized part of me is just happy to see him leave the post as president.

You know... This thing about those teachers is really a non-issue. America does not have problems with teachers scaring kids, as far as I know. But, America do have a problem with ignorant people that's to fucking arrogant to try to see beyond ones everyday-prejudices, and to fucking scared and frightened to care about anything else but being angry.

Don't agree? Then answer me how you can judge these teachers with the sensationalistic mass media as your only source for information.

But let me correct myself; I said that the problem with America are people like you. I meant that the problem with the whole world are people like you.
PermalinkPermalink 05/17/07 @ 18:32
Comment from: captainkona [Member] Email · http://tn420.org
To "Hey"...........

What makes you think we haven't talked to anyone involved? You assume much which proves you know little.
And in case you didn't know, the story has been reported throughout the nation and in at least 14 countries that we know of. Even if the media is basically a joke, the odds of that many outlets being wrong and you being right are rather slim.

We have spoken to people close to the issue. Just because we don't splatter their names all over the internet doesn't mean we haven't been in contact with them.

It could be that some asked not to be quoted and it's not unusual for TN420 to honor such requests.

As the old proverb goes, "it's not safe to assume".
PermalinkPermalink 05/18/07 @ 12:33
Comment from: Hey [Visitor]
To TN420...

Hahaha! This discussion has ended.
PermalinkPermalink 05/18/07 @ 17:41
Comment from: captainkona [Member] Email · http://tn420.org
To "Hey"...

Indeed.
PermalinkPermalink 05/18/07 @ 19:48
Comment from: from a parent whos kids go to scales [Visitor]
everyone wants to bad mouth our vice principal but yet you are where not there nor do you all know the whole story as we do.they took a prank to far and a couple parents got there panties in an up-roar.well there were kids giving high 5's and saying well they got us good and laughing about it,it wasnt until a parent got upset that it went public.there is no need to be calling the all sorts of f words and every other name you might think of,this shows your list of words (may i add not a big list of words do you know how to use).we love the vice-prince and cant wait for him to come back in 2007-2008.
PermalinkPermalink 06/25/07 @ 20:26
Comment from: captainkona [Member] Email · http://tn420.org
Thanx for the comment, "parent".
In spite of grammatical errors, you managed to make your point.

Assistant Principal Don Bartch said...
"We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation,"

Your idiot, and I do mean idiot, asst. Principal took it upon himself to try and train students how to behave during a "shooter" situation. He is not qualified to do so. Would you have him perform surgery on your kid?
Quit making excuses for these fools and understand that these people are incompetent.
All the lying in the world will not change that fact.

Regards, and may I suggest night school or a distance learning program to assist with your sixth grade writing skills.

LOL
PermalinkPermalink 06/26/07 @ 16:35

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