Cruel or clever?

[KSigkid]

I'm as much against drunk driving as anyone; as I've posted many times on this board, my wife and I were hit head on by a drunk driver last year.

This, however, is too much. There are lots of "scared straight" speakers out there who could instill a similar amount of fear and caution, without going that far.

[LPIDelta]

When I was in high school we did something kind of like this--we asked several students from different school groups to be "dead" for the day.

Names were read over the PA system once an hour to demonstrate the number of losses to drunk driving each day. When their name was called student participants left class and went to get a sign to wear explaining they were killed by drunk driving and put on makeup to make them look pale. Then they were not able to talk to anyone for the rest of the day until they were "revived" at an assembly.

Something like this might be effective in place of totally traumatizing the students.

[ZTAngel]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

There are lots of "scared straight" speakers out there who could instill a similar amount of fear and caution, without going that far.

Where's adpiucf? I know that we've talked about this on GC before. The schools need to be using the slideshow that the scared straight speakers used in Broward County, FL back in the late 90s. I don't know of a single friend of mine who I went to high school school with who would ever drive drunk or without a seatbelt after seeing that slideshow. Horrific...that's the only word I can use to describe it.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ZTAngel

Where's adpiucf? I know that we've talked about this on GC before. The schools need to be using the slideshow that the scared straight speakers used in Broward County, FL back in the late 90s. I don't know of a single friend of mine who I went to high school school with who would ever drive drunk or without a seatbelt after seeing that slideshow. Horrific...that's the only word I can use to describe it.

That sounds like the video we saw in driver's ed about wearing seatbelts. Either way, there are a lot of creative ways out there to get the point across without doing something like this.

[AGDee]

How totally messed up. If my kids' school did something like this you better believe they would hear from me. The things that LPiDelta and Raggedy Ann mention make sense. This is just cruel.

And now, if a student really does die at one of these schools, nobody is going to believe the news at first!