The "Every 15 Minutes" Program · 7:02pm Apr 12th, 2023
For those of you who are unaware, the Every 15 Minutes program is a school event where a grim reaper enters a classroom and takes a student. A police officer then enters the room and reads the obituary of said student, all deaths relating to crashes with drunk driving. This is representative of the fact that someone dies every 15 minutes to a drunk driving related crash.
Those students are then applied with visceral makeup and black robes to symbolise their death, and are unable to speak to anyone.
My best friend, Taidyn, was taken by the Reaper today. I know it's an event to give students awareness, but it's hitting me way too hard... I'm literally shaking trying to not cry. I just took half of my SAT today and now to find out that my best friend was "killed"?
It's too much for me to handle...
Wow... we never had those kinds of events in school, but that sounds a bit harsh, even if noble as far as the goal itself goes...
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It's supposed to make juniors and seniors think more critically about drunk driving, because too many teens don't think it will happen to them.
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It's a noble intention, and quite a creative way of showing people the consequences of drunk driving. As much as it affected you, I think that was the intent of the whole exercise.
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That makes sense. I myself am super terrified of driving anyway, despite being of driving age even in Europe, so I may be a bit biased here.