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musicalhell: sea-glass-and-fire:moral-autism: invertedporcupine:derinthescarletpescatarian: derinthescarletpescatarian: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.Every 15 Minutes - Wikipedia they put us in a theater and acted it out on stage, complete with a real car and a sequence where they tried and failed to revive the girl. then at the end they told us how many times they had observed us looking at our phones. They weren’t anyone from our school, though, just a company that did this every year. So much of American education is built around “scare ‘em straight” and you have no idea how fucked up it is. My school never did this (graduated in 2019), but I know it happened once at the Votech center. -- source link