[blparent] sheer terror

[Marla Wertman]

what is the point of showing a vidio like that to children? There
doesn't seem to be any educational value in that. 
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:40:33 -0700
"Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net> wrote:

> Gab came home in tears yesterday.  At first I thought someone had hurt her
> on the way home from the bus, then I thought the boy up the street was being
> mean again.  She cried and cried and I couldn't understand a thing she was
> saying.  Finally, she mumbled something about a video at school.
> Finally after she calmed down, we got out of her that her teacher had shown
> a realistic video that a grim reaper appeared to jump off the screen into
> the classroom.  Well for some kids it might have been a funny video, but to
> my child it was terrifying.
> The teacher called me shortly after Gab got home.  He said all the kids were
> laughing and then he looked at Gab... sheer terror.  The bell rang and she
> darted quickly from the room.  He knew that he had made a giant mistake
> showing it to the sensitive kids.
> He apologized over and over to me and then talked to Gab for some time on
> the phone until she finally calmed down.  It took some time.
> V
> 
> 
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	Marla Wertman
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