Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Council of Superintendents released a statement to teachers yesterday about a new video game being released. Below is the write up on the game from the makers website, Checkerboarded Studios.

SCHOOL SHOOTER: NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2012

In School Shooter: North American Tour 2012, you play as a disgruntled

student fed up with something or other (We're not exactly sure), who after researching

multiple school shooting martyrs, decides to become the best school shooter ever.

You must arm yourself with the same weapons as a previous school shooter,

including Eric Harris' TEC-9, Dylan Klebold's sawn-off shotgun, Seung-Hui Cho's

akimbo pistols, and Nevada-Tan's... Box cutter? The possibilities are endless!

You are free to do whatever you want (So long as it involves shooting people in

a school).

And your telling me video games do not impact our children's behavior?

The fact that the makers of this game use tragic events from real life as the model

is disturbing. Once I have contact information I will include it so that you can send

a letter, email, or make a call and have your opinion heard.