Children Traumatised by"war of the worlds" teacher abduction

Not really sure how I feel about this some part of me thinks its an interesting idea gone wrong however the other part of me thinks what were they thinking???

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5842324/Children-traumatised-by-War-of-Worlds-abduction-of-teacher.html

That's pitiful. These aren't Pugsley and Wednesday children here. They should have known that some would be too young for this kind of production. They should have maybe just had a puppet or marionette show for the younger grades.

It is a very creative idea, only just more suited towards children old enough to distinguish real from fantasy. I don't know if they had prepaired the classes by making an annoucement that this was only going to be a play and not real if that would have helped. I can't imagine that the costumes would have been of so high quality that the teachers of the younger students wouldn't have known it wasn't real.

Had I been one of the lower grades teachers I would have then and there told them that this was just make believe and no one was being taken nor harmed. So I think the teachers had a great deal of influence as to how this played out. And having done it this way, not telling anyone they ruined a grand opportunity to have a week long of events leading up to it! All the cool things they could have done with this! Even including the lunches!



Beam into the future!