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Today, my 16 yr. old daughter's school was surrounded by EMTs, police, fire departments: A helicopter hovered above the campus grounds. The coroner came, then the hearse.
There was a car crash on campus. Drunk drivers. Three critically injured 16 yr.old girls, all drinking, with one dead at the scene. One non-injured. They rushed the critically injured away in ambulances. The non-injured, the one who was driving drunk was handcuffed and arrested at the scene. The last was released by the fire dept. using the jaws of life, then put in a body bag and taken away in a hearst. All students and teachers were watching/crying.
Here's the lesson: This was an elaborate, very expensive mock set-up, only done every few years due to cost. Here's what happens now to teach the girls. Tonite one girl--the drunk driver will spend her nite in an actual jail. The three critically injured will actually spend their night in an intensive care hospital, and the baby girl in the body bag was actually taken to the morgue, via hearst and will spend the night alone without cell or anyone: she's dead and she needs to feel the deadness.
The seniors all volunteered and participated, wore fake blood, some of the students watching actually started fainting, one had a seizure...Seven were actually taken to hospital due to the intensity of this lesson.
Tommorow morn, parents will actually come and give their daughters' eulogy. The crashed car will remain on campus for two weeks.
I am thankful for this powerful emotional lesson, so grateful.
There was a car crash on campus. Drunk drivers. Three critically injured 16 yr.old girls, all drinking, with one dead at the scene. One non-injured. They rushed the critically injured away in ambulances. The non-injured, the one who was driving drunk was handcuffed and arrested at the scene. The last was released by the fire dept. using the jaws of life, then put in a body bag and taken away in a hearst. All students and teachers were watching/crying.
Here's the lesson: This was an elaborate, very expensive mock set-up, only done every few years due to cost. Here's what happens now to teach the girls. Tonite one girl--the drunk driver will spend her nite in an actual jail. The three critically injured will actually spend their night in an intensive care hospital, and the baby girl in the body bag was actually taken to the morgue, via hearst and will spend the night alone without cell or anyone: she's dead and she needs to feel the deadness.
The seniors all volunteered and participated, wore fake blood, some of the students watching actually started fainting, one had a seizure...Seven were actually taken to hospital due to the intensity of this lesson.
Tommorow morn, parents will actually come and give their daughters' eulogy. The crashed car will remain on campus for two weeks.
I am thankful for this powerful emotional lesson, so grateful.
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