Recently there has been controversy about the “scared straight” methods used in school. The case that started all of this was the deception at El Camino High School in California. The high school was shocked when police came into classrooms and announced that multiple students had died at the hands of drunk drivers over the weekend. Students were then told later that it was a hoax, and the missing students returned to class, but many of the students felt taken advantage of. All too many think that this playing on their emotions was not fair, and it brings up the question, how much is too much fear?
In my thirteen years in the public school system, I have been subject to many attempts to force fear into my classmates and myself. While I have never been hit this hard, by taking out my own classmates, I have seen extremely gory crash scenes, morgue images, police reports, and the like all in the name of prevention. Considering that after viewing things like that some of my classmat...
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