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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Angela]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 1:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[For all the kids whose fragile psyches were scarred, there were probably 10 that got over the fright, got the joke, and laughed like normal people. People are getting too thin skinned, but I'd guess a lot of that comes from looking for lawsuit liability in every human activity. Someone will always be offended or "damaged" by something. I plan on suing the rentire reality TV industry for turning peoples' brains into pudding, and it's offending me.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[Frank, this happened in London, so they will simply apologize, not do it again, and there will be no lawsuits... kind of a normal reaction. As for suing the reality tv shows, there is no basis when you apply the "assumption of risk" clause. You know, if you are stupid enough to watch them and believe for a second they are "reality," you are responsible for your own brain damage from watching. BTW, all reality shows are "constructed" reality, albeit construction of base materials in most cases.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Angela]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 5:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oh well said Angela!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pjbl2223]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 1:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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......]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[marigwanna420]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[thank you]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brandyd1az]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yep.  Well said.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nor Cal Amy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 8:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauryn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[aj]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[you must not have any children]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[aj]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm basically a fool, but I bet you're not a parent.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[drtom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 4:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[drevean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[If this was in the U.S., I'd be convinced Palin must have set this up.  What a fun and exciting activity!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[drevean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[prariwolf]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 3:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kcdgenius]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 4:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyggie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 4:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[Next year they shoot Santa.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wish Belkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 4:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/07/16/children-alarmed-by-teachers-war-of-the-worlds-style-abducti/</guid><description><![CDATA[and then the Easter bunny will be next !]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jbjg24m]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 16th 2009 6:25PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
