Children Alarmed by Teacher's 'War of the World's' Style Abduction

Nothing to scar the psyche of young children like having them follow a trail of debris to find a space ship that's eating people.... I'm sorry, but this is so stupid, it's funny.

Oh well said Angela!

kudos to the teacher.... trying to make school more interesting.... even the police thought it was a fun activity.... enough to participate but parents dont want to parent thier kids and take the 15 minutes to explain what happened..... instead they assume their kids are stupid and cant understand things so they just try and blame everyone else for everything........ they dont want their kids to feel fear, happiness, anger, jealousy, sadness..... none of those.... they are hiding the kids from life... whenever my son asks me questions about "questionable content" i am very honest about it and explain why things are the way they are..... that way when he grows up, he wont find out the truth and start to distrust me.....parents need to stop shielding their kids from life.... parents are supposed to teach children all there is to know about life, not hide them from it......

Wow, that must have been awful for the kids. It doesn't even seem like there was in a lesson in it, like if the teacher was doing something risky or foolish and the lesson would be that such behavior could lead to bad outcomes!

why would anyone want to deliberately frighten children. They have a hared enough time believing there is not a monster in the closet or under the bed. These teachers seem to check their brains at the door. If you want to inspire creativity try drawing, music, writing stories, etc.

you must not have any children

For all the people who think this was something terrible for the kids and shouldn't have been done TO the kids, you basically a fool. You read only a very short article about this yet you want to talk down to the school and teachers and even the police for doing what they did becuase a "few" kids got a little upset. Maybe, next time "before" you talk such stupid things you should find out the FACTS before hand huh? Ofd course that would mean you wouldn't just rely only on AOL for their great news articles and I think we can all agree, you wouldn't dream of thta now would you lol.

Now this is a real story. The "adults" we've allowed to be the teachers of our young, and the men we charge with protecting our communities, lack the insight to realize this was going to be the dumbest school activity ever. Now their parents are going to try to convince them that aliens don't exist, and those kids are going to grow just that much duller. I predict more backfire to come.

If this was in the U.S., I'd be convinced Palin must have set this up. What a fun and exciting activity!

Three words would have ended the confusion for the kiddies "It's just pretend." This won't scar them. By the time they are in high school they'll be laughing at how they cowered. It's no worse than seeing a horror movie that one is too young for and not being able to sleep for a night or three.

They would never try this with older kids. Know why? Because older kids wouldn't believe it. The school took advantage of the fact that these children were young enough to still trust in their authority figures (even the police were involved?). There are so many ways to have children interacting creatively in school, why use their trust in adults against them? When a real situation occurs, they may think it's simply "an exercise". This was a really irresponsible decision.

Hey you know what else would be educational? Pull the kids aside one by one and tell them their parents and siblings have been murdered by a terrorist with a rifle. What would they learn? Who cares, it sure would be fun to watch them cry and bawl. And then we'll say "JUST KIDDING" . These teachers should be fired for fcking with kid's minds.

Oh please. When mine were small like that and something scary came on TV it was simple enough to say "that's not real, it's TV". Fear gone, acceptance that it wasn't going to hurt them. The kids were on an adventure. You can't tell me that none of even the little ones have played cops and robbers, cowboys and indians or pirates. It's a game, it's pretend. It would have been simple enough to explain that without everybody getting their drawers bunched up. People are just too frikken PC today, we're raising a bunch of sissies that expect everything done for them.

Next year they shoot Santa.