Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/06/oh-my-god-im-gonna-get-shot-vermont-cops-terrorize-high-school-students-with-mock-mass-shooting.html
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They could have taught that same lesson by having somebody dressed up in a hamburglar-style costume pop out of a closet, grab something off a desk and run out the door then ask students what kind of shoes he was wearing to see if they all gave the same answer.
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Lawsuits coming, no doubt.
And rightly so.
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There’s a pretty common Psych 101 demonstration of the same concept in which, mid-lecture, someone comes in and throws a cup of water on the professor. I don’t think that’s ever resulted in anyone fearing they might die.
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Never mourn a cop.
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Maybe someone with a very rare skin condition.
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i think it say a lot about how policing works in the USA. here is an experiment / test / example that has been done before. yet the cops first thoughts were to use violence to show it.
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Those examples don’t make kids who are about to be able to vote afraid enough, and they might be ok with such abhorrent ideas as defunding the police if we don’t remind them why the cops pretend they exist.
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What the actual F&CK?!!?!?
Do you want to give kids PTSD? BECAUSE THAT’S HOW YOU GIVE KIDS PTSD!!
Bill the cops for all the therapy sessions on that one.
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That wouldn’t terrify children. You obviously have no background in elementary and secondary pedagogy.
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If nothing else it’s a memorable lesson in ACAB-ology.
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Stuff like this is why my kids and I have a code word for cops - ‘therapy’
Why is terrifying children necessary to teach them that witness accounts are unreliable? You can do that without inflicting psychological trauma that will follow those kids for life.
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And how would they have responded if a kid busted out some return fire? I mean, after all, doesn’t a certain demographic want to encourage kids to be packing too?
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It is only through childhood trauma that lessons can be imprinted for a lifetime. I think that’s from Paolo Freire or Ivan Illyich. I forget.
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Gonna have to disagree on that. Especially teaching something completely non-critical like ‘witness statements are unreliable’.
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I was a subject in one of the original studies of the type.
… you don’t have to surprise people with the scenario. We were well briefed that it was going to be happening. The scene was actually a little bit comedic in that certain details were changed, but the scenario was tense enough that it didn’t really matter. It still wrecked peoples’ testimonies.
I did remarkably well, if only because I only stuck to the few details I was able to identify and didn’t try to fill in any blanks.
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Taking away their phones, however…
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