“Operation Prom Night”. We lost several that day.
Sounds like it may have been Gene Parmesan
Born and raised in Alberta, I’ve never heard of or seen this
Then you are lucky. I was in Fort McMurray and got dragged across the river to another school to go watch this nonsense.
As an American who grew up in the 90s and 00s… what the fuck, this was a THING?!
As an American who grew up in the 90’s and 00’s…yes it was a thing… unfortunately.
Yeah they still have a staged “wreck” just outside of a nearby town. MADD is nutty when you realize they collect a fuck ton of money and have almost no legitimate way to spend it.
We got to wear some glasses that supposedly gave you drunken/on drugs vision. Everybody liked that.
At mine, on that day, they started it by announcing over the intercom one morning that a popular classmate had been killed by a drunk driver on the way into school. Even though it should have been obvious that’s not how it would really have been handled, it got the shock it was intended to get. A few people even ran out of classrooms crying. That was before everyone had cell phones.
I guess they wanted to make a point about the fatality rate statistic, too, though, so they kept going, announcing another person every however many minutes. It immediately became really obvious to everyone what was going on when they announced the second person. I think it lost more of its desired effect the more they continued.
As an (insert counrty you like to shit on here) person, I only remember violent gunman drills specifically. We would all be instructed to hide in a corner(s) not visible from the hallway, and to stay dead silent, while the administration staff knocked on the doors and didn’t do the “all OK” actions.
Funnily enough, my suggestion we “grab a knife or knifey object and we’ll bum rush the fucker” NEVER went over well, for some reason.
In my school, one student was pronounced dead at the scene, one was taken by ambulance, and another was airlifted.
Every day, we would hear a car crash and heartbeat come up on the announcement system and then a grim reaper would walk into a classroom and tap a student on the should who “died” from drunk driving. They were taken to another room, where they put on makeup and a tombstone was placed for them in front of the school. At the end of the day, all the “dead” students would stand behind their tombstone. The “dead” would still attend class, but say nothing.
At the end of the week, there was a big presentation, where some people who survived a drunk driving accident spoke about their experience and statistics. He had suffered third-degree burns across his body and took off his shirt and walked around the auditorium, so that we could see the aftermath.
Fatal Choices was intense
This basically happened inThe Simpsons.
We had to wear goggles that simulated being drunk like that one episode of the Simpsons and then try to do basic tasks like walk from one point to another or whatever so they could show how it impaired your motor skills. But it backfired because they just really exaggerate the visual impairment you get from drinking, they’re basically putting on a really too strong pair of glasses. But we did several rounds and eventually got somewhat used to it, it was a big game of who could seem the least impaired, the message was completely lost on us, etc
What
We had a day when they simulated a group of students being killed in a drunk driving accident. They still had to come to school, though, so they wore white face paint and weren’t supposed to interact with anyone.
My school had this too. The fake crash was on the grass by the bus loop, and the theatre kids involved went to class with ghost facepaint and didn’t talk until school was dismissed. NGL it stuck with me, but I was already afraid of alcohol and drugs because of DARE* 🤷♂️
*Discredited program that only worked on me apparently.
In America they do that in between active shooter drills.
Terrified at a young age, it may not be weird people take to the one legal drug if they finally reach the age of legality.
in between active shooters
drills.Ftfy
Yes, but it wasn’t fake. Three students died playing drunk motorcycle chicken, two guys and one of them had their girlfriend on the back. The whole school was in mourning and I got written up for pointing out that they were clearly fucking idiots.
Nah at my high school we just had kids die in drunk driving accidents every year, usually multiple. I’d say we didn’t need a lot of theater around the topic, but well, then again…
