Inhuman

Fresh from the "I Cannot Believe Anybody Would Be This Stupid" File: School defends drunken driving hoax

On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax, a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.

As seniors prepare for graduation parties Friday, school officials in the largely prosperous San Diego, California, suburb are defending themselves against allegations that they went too far.

At school assemblies, some students held posters that read, "Death is real. Don't play with our emotions."

Michelle de Gracia, 16, was in physics class when an officer announced that her missing classmate David, a popular basketball player, had died instantly after being rear-ended by a drunken driver. She said she felt nauseated but was too stunned to cry.

"They got the shock they wanted," she said.

They should wind up getting a shock they didn't want, namely the shock of being sued for inflicting intentional emotional distress.  And don't even try to tell me that the ends justify these means.  If they couldn't think of another way of imparting this type of important information to their students then their teaching certificates should be revoked, because it is what they are supposed to be doing for a living. 

How much you wanna bet many of those in the know enjoyed doing this to these kids?

It's downright sadistic.