http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ShockTactics Posts tagged with 'ShockTactics' at MetaFilter. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:13:36 -0800 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:13:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72483/School%2DDefends%2DDrunken%2DDriving%2DHoax "On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25123570/"> [Oceanside, California] to announce some horrible news</a>: 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." While the school defends its actions, some students are protesting: "<a href="http://www.kmbc.com/education/16590892/detail.html">Death is real. Don't play with our emotions</a>." "The <a href="http://www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/326667.html">stunt </a>was a twist on a program called <a href="http://www.every15minutes.com/">Every 15 Minutes</a>^{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_15_Minutes">*</a>}, which was designed in the early 1990s, when someone was killed an average of once every 15 minutes in alcohol-related accidents." <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5005097&page=1">Scared Straight or Scared Stiff: Do Alcohol Awareness Programs Sometimes Go Too Far</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72483 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:13:36 -0800 ElCaminoHighSchool ShockTactics TeenDrinking UnderageDrinking ericb