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Not that it should make much difference in the overall debate, but I read something recently that suggested the school was planning the traditional "Ghost-Out" thing that the kids all know is fake, with kids pulled out of class and deathlike make-up etc, and it was the kids involved with the planning that said they wanted to make it more real. I'm surprised the adults signed off though.
I also have a hard time imagining that you could really make a whole school believe that the event had actually happened at the level that it would actually be traumatic, unless the kids at my school are just usually savvy.
The kids do have contact with the outside world these days with cellphones and texting, and unless the entire community was participating in the hoax, the kids at my school would know there was no wreck in about 15 minutes.
I don't think you should traumatize kids and say it's for their own good, but a lot of high school kids do love drama and measure things like assemblies by intensity of emotion felt. (It baffles me and results in many a cheezed-up, overly emotional event; don't even get me started on youth group events.)
I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of the kids at the school regarded this drunk driving thing as an effective lesson about drunk driving just as we all think it was a horrible idea.
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