Wisconsin school fakes deaths of four students as a drunk driving 'drill'

A Wisconsin school pretended four students had been killed in a drunk driving accident as part of a safety lesson.

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published 5 November 2016

Administrators at a Wisconsin high school sparked outrage when they announced that four specific students had been killed by a drunk driver, only to reveal later that it was just a "drill about safe-driving techniques." After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance on a regular school morning, students at Brodhead High School were informed of their classmates' deaths.

Many students burst into tears upon hearing the announcement, The Washington Post reports. "It's a really small school," one student said. "Most of the people really knew who they were."