{"id":7676,"date":"2007-05-16T18:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2007-05-16T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T22:07:19","slug":"dumb-and-dumber-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7676","title":{"rendered":"DUMB AND DUMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dumb teachers update.  It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/EDUCATION\/05\/16\/faked.attack.ap\/index.html\">&#8220;ghost story<\/a> gone horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A teacher and assistant principal who frightened sixth-grade students on a class trip by telling them a gunman was on the loose were staging a prank, a spokeswoman for the schools said.<\/p>\n<p>The school district&#8217;s statement reversed earlier statements by the assistant principal that it was planned as a learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher Quentin Mastin came up with the prank, said Murfreesboro City School District spokeswoman Cheryl Harris. It was his turn to tell a scary story to 69 sixth-graders from Scales Elementary School who were on a weeklong trip at Fall Creek Falls State Park.<\/p>\n<p>He decided to pretend there was someone shooting a gun. The children were called into the common area and told there were two men driving around shooting randomly. Then a teacher told the students to &#8220;do a code red&#8221; &#8212; a school emergency drill &#8212; and they got under the tables and turned off the lights.<\/p>\n<p>Another teacher drove a car up to the building and flashed the headlights while a third put a sweat shirt over her head and rattled the doors. That&#8217;s when some of the children started crying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dumb teachers update. It was a &#8220;ghost story gone horribly wrong. A teacher and assistant principal who frightened sixth-grade students on a class trip by telling them a gunman was on the loose were staging a prank, a spokeswoman for the schools said. The school district&#8217;s statement reversed earlier statements by the assistant principal that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}