Red Dawn was just a movie. I watched a training film on what to do if Red Dawn actually happened. The entire school system watched this movie - the not Red Dawn movie.
It is set in a sunny schoolroom. The kids are about 2-3rd grade and all of a sudden a very pretty and young dark haired woman enters the room and says she is replacing their teacher. Their teacher had to go on a long trip. She does some subtle things like stops the kids from reciting the pledge of allegiance because it is not fun and then they all talk about how pretty the flag is and since it is so pretty then they should all come up and cut a piece off of it so they can each carry a bit of the pretty material around.
Then several men enter the classroom and whisper with the pretty teacher for a while. She turns back to the class and tells them that she has wonderful news - all of their parents have just given the school permission to take the kids on a wonderful field trip! They are going to travel overnight to a camp and it will just be the kids and they will have so much fun!
We were shown this film so that in the event of a communist invasion we would recognize the signs. After the movie shows there is a bit where the narrator comes in and goes over all of the little insidious things the teacher did to start the children on the path of becoming brainwashed.
My 6 year old brain took this to mean that all nice substitute teachers were communists and not to be trusted.
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Date: 2004-12-27 09:40 pm (UTC)It is set in a sunny schoolroom. The kids are about 2-3rd grade and all of a sudden a very pretty and young dark haired woman enters the room and says she is replacing their teacher. Their teacher had to go on a long trip. She does some subtle things like stops the kids from reciting the pledge of allegiance because it is not fun and then they all talk about how pretty the flag is and since it is so pretty then they should all come up and cut a piece off of it so they can each carry a bit of the pretty material around.
Then several men enter the classroom and whisper with the pretty teacher for a while. She turns back to the class and tells them that she has wonderful news - all of their parents have just given the school permission to take the kids on a wonderful field trip! They are going to travel overnight to a camp and it will just be the kids and they will have so much fun!
We were shown this film so that in the event of a communist invasion we would recognize the signs. After the movie shows there is a bit where the narrator comes in and goes over all of the little insidious things the teacher did to start the children on the path of becoming brainwashed.
My 6 year old brain took this to mean that all nice substitute teachers were communists and not to be trusted.