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Children Traumatized By "War of the Worlds" Abduction of Teacher
370 children at Southway Junior School were surprised when a spaceship landed near their school. They were terrified when aliens invaded the classrooms and started to abduct teachers; and their parents are furious that school officials decided to put on this production to "develop youngsters' writing skills" without notifying them first. The school did have the foresight to inform the local police however. Thinking it was a great idea, the cops provided sirens and flashing blue lights to signify the landing of the spaceship. A parent who wished to remain anonymous said, "God only knows what the school was playing at. I mean, to shock children into thinking that the aliens have landed and have abducted a teacher is just a little too much for seven-year-olds. My daughter was deeply upset by it all and came home looking shell shocked. She wasn't sure what had happened and really wanted to know that everything was going to be alright."
The children were in trauma?
Give me a break, parents, the world is much, much worse than any kind of alien invasion. Why insist on having kids live in a small cristal bubble?
NO SIG
That would have really messed them up ( heck, I think I'd be messed up after that ).
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
Those adults were as stupid as the ones from South Park...maybe a good idea for an episode? Especially since the recent ones have been really lacking...
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
If aliens had abducted our teachers we'd have jumped for joy.
Between stuff like this and the English police arresting a photographer for being too tall (it's on theregister.co.uk), I'm starting to think that stupid pills really do exist and are in mass distribution.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Childhood has a lot of dull and boring stretches. Nothing wrong with a healthy imagination.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_10_creepiest_are_you_afraid_of_the_dark_episod.php
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/03/the_10_most_insane_childwarping_moments_of_80s_car.php
Dear me, how pathetic. It's not the kids who are over-reacting, but the parents.
One problem with creating surprise faux-disasters is that a small percentage of the population will attempt to rescue a beloved teacher or fight against a supposed alien.
If anything, I'd wager that a child is more likely to resolve issues with violence than an adult anyway.
Granted, seven-year-olds aren't really strong enough to do real damage most of the time, but what do you do with a kid who tries something heroic and winds up hurting an "alien"/actor/terrorist?
Give him detention? Give her a medal?
And how is the youngster supposed to feel after being told that the "alien" he assaulted with a stapler/pencil/book/whatever was actually Mr. Livingston, the social studies teacher?
Sheeesh .... Its like believing in an unseen unknown being who has three parts and can see everything we do. And causes all the Badness on the Earth (and other planets) but revels in our goodness, so we can go live with her/him forever, AFTER we die. But one of his mates got chucked out of the house ages ago and set up an alternative dwelling place, that is, like, a right-on sado-masochistic dungeon room. But wait, there is ANOTHER place called limbo where all the unitarians go for approx 1,000 years before being allowed into the good place. And none of the priests can engage in sex with grown Women as most of them are repressed Homosexuals liking Michael Jackson. There's more .......
When I was in elementary school, all our teachers got together and played a St. Patrick's Day trick on us during recess. They put "leprechaun tracks" all over the sidewalk and when we followed them into our classrooms, all our desks were upside down and the rooms were wrecked in general. We were young enough to (mostly) believe it, yet we turned out just fine. Later we had lessons on how not to believe everything you saw, how to avoid being taken in by television commercials, and so on. They were great life lessons that stuck with (me) at least.