JDB
31st of March 2007 (Sat), 00:16
-Warning: one or two graphic images (kinda)-
From www.every15minutes.com: (http://www.every15minutes.com:)
"Life's lessons are best learned through experience. Unfortunately, when the target audience is teens and the topic is drinking and driving, experience is not the teacher of choice.
The Every 15 Minutes Program offers real-life experience without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program, entitled Every 15 Minutes, is an event designed to dramatically instill teenagers with the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol. This powerful program will challenge students to think about drinking, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved.
During the first day events the "Grim Reaper" calls students who have been selected from a cross-section of the entire student body out of class. One student is removed from class every 15 minutes. A police officer will immediately enter the classroom to read an obituary which has been written by the "dead" student's parent(s) - explaining the circumstances of their classmate's demise and the contributions the student has made to the school and the community. A few minutes later, the student will return to class as the "living dead," complete with white face make-up, a coroner's tag, and a black Every 15 Minutes T-shirt. From that point on "victims" will not speak or interact with other students for the remainder of the school day. Simultaneously, uniformed officers will make mock death notifications to the parents of these children at their home, place of employment or business.
After lunch, a simulated traffic collision will be viewable on the school grounds. Rescue workers will treat injured student participants. These students will experience first hand, the sensations of being involved in a tragic, alcohol-related collision. The coroner will handle fatalities on the scene, while the injured students will be extricated by the jaws-of-life manned by Fire-Fighters and Paramedics. Police Officers will investigate, arrest, and book the student "drunk driver". Student participants will continue their experience by an actual trip to the morgue, the hospital emergency room, and to the police department jail for the purpose of being booked for "drunk driving"
On the following morning, a mock funeral service will be held at the High School. The assembly will began with a video of normal school day activities including scenes from the first day of the "Grim Reaper" and the staged accident. The assembly will be hosted by an Officer (Project Coordinator), who will guide the audience through the devastating effects of losing a loved one due to a bad choice. Speakers will include students who will read letters to their parents, police officers, and hospital personnel who shared their emotional trauma of dealing with kids killed in accidents."
1. The accident staged before the student body.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139628760-L-1.jpg
2. One of the "deceased" students pulled out of her class.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139618736-L.jpg
3. Death watches everything unfold...
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139621859-L.jpg
4. Killed instantly in the collision
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139621169-L.jpg
5. Pronounced dead at the hospital
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139619412-L.jpg
6. Don't knock on Death's door... ring the doorbell and run; he hates that.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139623504-L.jpg
7. Another "deceased" student
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139626357-L.jpg
8. The program (understandably) tends to evoke a pretty emotional response from the students; the young man here played the part of the drunk driver responsible for the deaths of the students in #'s 4 and 5.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139825426-L.jpg
From www.every15minutes.com: (http://www.every15minutes.com:)
"Life's lessons are best learned through experience. Unfortunately, when the target audience is teens and the topic is drinking and driving, experience is not the teacher of choice.
The Every 15 Minutes Program offers real-life experience without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program, entitled Every 15 Minutes, is an event designed to dramatically instill teenagers with the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol. This powerful program will challenge students to think about drinking, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved.
During the first day events the "Grim Reaper" calls students who have been selected from a cross-section of the entire student body out of class. One student is removed from class every 15 minutes. A police officer will immediately enter the classroom to read an obituary which has been written by the "dead" student's parent(s) - explaining the circumstances of their classmate's demise and the contributions the student has made to the school and the community. A few minutes later, the student will return to class as the "living dead," complete with white face make-up, a coroner's tag, and a black Every 15 Minutes T-shirt. From that point on "victims" will not speak or interact with other students for the remainder of the school day. Simultaneously, uniformed officers will make mock death notifications to the parents of these children at their home, place of employment or business.
After lunch, a simulated traffic collision will be viewable on the school grounds. Rescue workers will treat injured student participants. These students will experience first hand, the sensations of being involved in a tragic, alcohol-related collision. The coroner will handle fatalities on the scene, while the injured students will be extricated by the jaws-of-life manned by Fire-Fighters and Paramedics. Police Officers will investigate, arrest, and book the student "drunk driver". Student participants will continue their experience by an actual trip to the morgue, the hospital emergency room, and to the police department jail for the purpose of being booked for "drunk driving"
On the following morning, a mock funeral service will be held at the High School. The assembly will began with a video of normal school day activities including scenes from the first day of the "Grim Reaper" and the staged accident. The assembly will be hosted by an Officer (Project Coordinator), who will guide the audience through the devastating effects of losing a loved one due to a bad choice. Speakers will include students who will read letters to their parents, police officers, and hospital personnel who shared their emotional trauma of dealing with kids killed in accidents."
1. The accident staged before the student body.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139628760-L-1.jpg
2. One of the "deceased" students pulled out of her class.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139618736-L.jpg
3. Death watches everything unfold...
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139621859-L.jpg
4. Killed instantly in the collision
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139621169-L.jpg
5. Pronounced dead at the hospital
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139619412-L.jpg
6. Don't knock on Death's door... ring the doorbell and run; he hates that.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139623504-L.jpg
7. Another "deceased" student
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139626357-L.jpg
8. The program (understandably) tends to evoke a pretty emotional response from the students; the young man here played the part of the drunk driver responsible for the deaths of the students in #'s 4 and 5.
http://jbphotography.smugmug.com/photos/139825426-L.jpg