I don't see this as any preamble to "Disclosure." That's just Ufological BS (er, I mean wishful thinking).
We in the developed world have this shared fantasy that schools are “safe” places. Just think about the horrific events that have happened in schools worldwide over the past 15-20 years, and clearly that’s not the case. It’s just a comforting delusion.
Preparing children (and their families) for unforeseen, horrible, tragic events at a local school seems like a far more prudent course of action than just burying our heads in the sand. I suspect the UFO crash scenario is just a more palatable stand-in for foreign terrorists crashing a plane into a school or taking one over and holding the students as hostages.
I applaud the Brits for tackling this issue so that their students, teachers, emergency workers, and families have some preparation for dealing with a school-based disaster. We should be doing something similar in the US, but we’re too preoccupied arguing over charter schools, “No Child Left Behind”, teachers’ pay, and education funding.
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I don't see this as any preamble to "Disclosure." That's just Ufological BS (er, I mean wishful thinking).
We in the developed world have this shared fantasy that schools are “safe” places. Just think about the horrific events that have happened in schools worldwide over the past 15-20 years, and clearly that’s not the case. It’s just a comforting delusion.
Preparing children (and their families) for unforeseen, horrible, tragic events at a local school seems like a far more prudent course of action than just burying our heads in the sand. I suspect the UFO crash scenario is just a more palatable stand-in for foreign terrorists crashing a plane into a school or taking one over and holding the students as hostages.
I applaud the Brits for tackling this issue so that their students, teachers, emergency workers, and families have some preparation for dealing with a school-based disaster. We should be doing something similar in the US, but we’re too preoccupied arguing over charter schools, “No Child Left Behind”, teachers’ pay, and education funding.
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