Teachers defend shock tactics in teen drunken driving program
by Allison Hoffman
On a Monday morning last month, California Highway Patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. Classmates wept. Some became hysterical. A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax - a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials, with several dozen students' participation, to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.
Associated Press, 6/13/2008