Monday, May 19, 2008
Grand Prairie full of ‘shattered dreams’
You might think you saw a car accident this Monday morning in the parking lot of Grand Prairie High School, but you didn't.
In actuality, it was just the annual "Shattered Dreams" reenactment, during which high school students conduct mock accidents to warn their fellow classmates of the horrible, bloody and screaming consequences of drunk driving.
High schools across the nation regularly host the gory, scared-straighty event as part of a national campaign to increase awareness.
If you missed the show today, Grand Prairie will be taking things up a notch by putting on an encore spectacle in the parking lot of South Grand Prairie High School on Thursday, May 22nd at 9:00 a.m.
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Throughout their time with us, we strap our little ones into their safety seats and test their bathwater and set their curfews and pray for their safety and thank God for the blessings that they are in our lives. I am so very grateful to our policemen, paramedics, school staff and students who put things in place to make Grand Prairie High School's Shattered Dreams production happen. If there was anyone there who failed to respond appropriately to gravity of the situation, I was not aware of it. Without commitment to community support that students, staff and parents exemplify and foster in other groups throughout Grand Prairie, the things that had to come together to pull this off would not have been possible. It was all I could do to NOT run screaming down the hill and hold my daughter's hand while we waited for her to be "treated" ...and I worried about the shoe that fell off her foot that they left behind when they took her away as my husband held me and patted my arm as I cried. I tried to take deep breaths, and say to myself, "They are acting, this is not real, they are acting," all the while realizing that too many times the scene can be ALL TOO REAL and that chances to hold one's child one more time are over...)
When I walked into the house afterward, I was confronted with her dress from a banquet this weekend still hanging on the laundry room door. What a relief to realize that she will return to put it away herself!
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