Have these teachers lost their minds?

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<p>Thanks for posting the CNN link Roshke. So now the school is saying it was prank (not a drill or learning experience). </p>

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The school district’s statement reversed earlier statements by the assistant principal that it was planned as a learning experience.

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<p>Also in the article:

Jessica Giles, an assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University who studies the consequences of violence and trauma on children, suggested that regardless of whether the incident was a drill or a prank, the effect on the children would probably be the same.</p>

<p>It is reasonable to expect that at least some of those students might suffer from “increased amounts of fear about violence and school shootings and increased distrust for authority figures,” she said.

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<p>Reaction from the children:

The children who were on the trip were offered counseling, Harris said, “and the counselor said the children were upset because their teacher was not going to be there for the end of school.”

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