Bad Prank Choice

Parents upset after teachers' prank goes too far

Parents of students at a Murfreesboro elementary school are outraged that teachers and an assistant principal staged a phony gun attack on their children, telling them repeatedly it was not a drill, while the children cried and took shelter under tables.

Sixty-nine sixth-grade students from Scales Elementary school were on a weeklong trip at Fall Creek Falls, a state park about 130 miles southeast of Nashville. On Thursday, the last night of the outing, the staff played a prank on the kids, convincing them there was a gunman on the loose.

A teacher wearing a hooded sweatshirt pulled on a locked door, pretending to be a suspicious subject in the area.

The students were told to lie on the floor or crawl underneath tables and keep quiet. The lights went out, and about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said. Some held hands and shook.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ ” Shay said Saturday afternoon as she recounted the incident. “At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out. (A teacher) told us, ‘We just got a call that there’s been a random shooting.’ I was freaked out. I thought it was serious.”

Shooting Threat

Substitute Teacher Arrested, Accused of Threatening to Shoot School Staff

A former substitute teacher was arrested after he was accused of threatening human resources and administrative staff in the Northside School District.

Investigators picked up the 60-year-old Thomas Kincaid near his home in the Lake Hills/Pipe Creek area. Kincaid was locked up at the Bandera County Sheriff's Office as of Tuesday afternoon.

Kincaid spent 4 years as a substitute teacher in the Northside School District, filling in at all grade levels. Deputies said he told a counselor at his church he was upset and planned to shoot staff members.

Shooting

"Teacher Arrested At Smyrna High School"

A Smyrna High School teacher is in trouble with the law. Deputies arrested Julie Shelton at her school Wednesday.

They said Shelton fired a gun at her neighbor, because he was being too loud.

She is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

She posted $10,000 bond.