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“WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM?!!
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Here in Australia we...

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dying-redshirt-noises:

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

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inthefallofasparrow:

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM?!!

Here in Australia we just explain how seatbelts work and about not getting into cars with drunk drivers but okay America.

#i think its because teenagers are kinda dumb and think theyre invincible#at least my students are#so you have to show them death to smack it into their heads that they can actually die 

You clearly don’t have to, since we get along just fine without doing it. This just sounds like a great way to traumatise kids but the stats say that American kids tend to come out of high school with PTSD anyway so in for a penny I guess. Is there any data to suggest that this affects teen road accident statistics in any way or did someone just decide it sounded cool and impactful one day?

If this is a common US thing at all (and I doubt it - in fact I’d guess some or all of these tweets are complete fabrications), it’s recent. This didn’t happen when I went to high school and I’ve never personally heard of it happening anywhere else either.

Here’s a Wikipedia article about one such program. My high school did it. Also they lie about statistics. And at my school, people eulogized themselves and we were supposed to act respectful during it.

Also, the teachers were supposed to keep the scheduling a secret, but the German instructor warned us.

Yeah we had an actual dead persons parent come into the auditorium and tell us not to drink and drive. Probs didn’t have the budget for the smashed car and fake blood

yeah we had a legit wrecked car in the parking lot and they like used a thing to cut open the car so they could pull the theater kid out. i think there may have been a helicopter?

we didnt have an assembly about it but we did have the wrecked car and the “ghosts”
iirc it was called shattered dreams or some shit. wreacking the car was a fundraising event where we paid $5 for a single hit with a baseball bat and $15 for a sledgehammer. the first hit was a raffle event and ofc every year the first one would go right for the windshield. during the day the “ghosts” would wander around everyone made the same joke where they point and say “I see dead people”

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