Australian Students: Just Hanging Around
By Wyatt Earp | June 8, 2009
What the Hell is going on in Australian schools?
CANBERRA – A student who fell with a noose around his neck during a mock class hanging that was arranged by teachers has enraged Australian authorities.
The high school student fell from a table while fellow students, under the supervision of a teacher, were photographing a staged hanging as part of an English class project.
Students and teachers rushed to the boy and cut the rope when he fell, Education Queensland Assistant Director-General Lyn McKenzie said, although local newspapers said the boy turned blue before he was freed. (H/T – Reuters)
Humorously enough, the teacher pulled out a knife to cut the boy down when a student intervened. Allegedly, the student stated, “That’s not a knife. THIS is a knife.”
Oh yeah, I’m going to Hell.
Topics: WTF? | 8 Comments »
Sure, Wyatt, you’re going to Hell, and Barack Obama will save the country from our malaises. That was a funny joke.
You sure the student had’nt just finished seeing “Australia”,on DVD?
What the heck!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I cannot even begin to think of why this would have been a good class activity to begin with…in English class? Geesh!
Morgan – HopeChange!
Diller – Or maybe they were re-enacting the Nathan Hale Story?
RT – History class . . . maybe.
Where was ‘elf & safety?
Where was the Risk Assessment?
WHERE WAS COMMON SENSE?
Common sense was on vacation with grasshopper in Thailand. There is a wide difference between unintended consequence and forseeable consequense. Any teacher that endangers his students needs to be strung up. No wait, shot… er, well hell, do something.
I would have hated to have been around there if they decided to…hang around and have a blast.
Alan B – All of them were absent that day.
MUD – Fired, at least.
Jon – Ba-dump-bump!