[Nyck]

[quote="TGB!":f5925]How is this ANY different than a fire drill? The masks may have been over the top, but would the "kids" have believed them otherwise?[/quote:f5925]

Fire drills are usually conducted during school hours AT the school, not a week long class trip.

Fire drills are usually scheduled mandatory events for the school, and in most cases are announced beforehand.

Fire drills are designed so that you know evacuation routes and what to do during them.
you don't have people on fire with teachers running into classes saying OH MY GOD FIRE!!! FIRE!!!!! THIS ISN'T A DRILL.

if you want to have drills on what should occur is there is a gunman at a school thats fine. conduct them give them proper instruction on what to do and then discuss it. you don't need to believe there is a fire to conduct a drill.

these teachers didn't DRILL them. a drill is instruction on how to do something not an episode of SCARE TATICS where you say "lets shock them and see what they do." it was an event where a group of teachers decided to do something outside of school events and practices and go about it in the completely wrong method and they should be punished accordingly for their stupid decision.