Poor judgement perhaps, but I would stop it there. I wouldn't even go so far as to say that "drill" was inappropriate. When I was in sixth grade, we would pull pranks like this on each other all the time. In fact, at our school camp in elementary school I nearly pissed myself when our counsellors (teachers and high school students) decided it would be funny to tell us that a mad man with a gun was running around. We were all scared as hell, but it makes for a good jaugh now. I still do not understand what the huge deal is, but maybe that's because I'm still in a pre-columbine mindset. All I know is that they did this type of thing to us a few times, we didn't know they were joking at the time, and I'm not fucked up, nor are any of my former class mates (at least, not because of that).
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Poor judgement perhaps, but I would stop it there. I wouldn't even go so far as to say that "drill" was inappropriate. When I was in sixth grade, we would pull pranks like this on each other all the time. In fact, at our school camp in elementary school I nearly pissed myself when our counsellors (teachers and high school students) decided it would be funny to tell us that a mad man with a gun was running around. We were all scared as hell, but it makes for a good jaugh now. I still do not understand what the huge deal is, but maybe that's because I'm still in a pre-columbine mindset. All I know is that they did this type of thing to us a few times, we didn't know they were joking at the time, and I'm not fucked up, nor are any of my former class mates (at least, not because of that).