Mashable- A group of teens willingly stood against a wall and got a dose of pepper spray to the face as a part of a criminal technology course at Barberton High School in Ohio. “Stop resisting, please comply,” the instructor can be heard saying before spraying each teen directly in the face.

Barberton City Schools Superintendent Patricia Cleary said in a phone call that the career tech class is sanctioned through the Ohio Department of Education. The exercise is supposed to help students who may be going into law enforcement understand the effects of pepper spray. Each student who took part in the exercise needed a waiver signed by their parents. While the exercise was not mandatory, each student that got sprayed earned a point towards graduation. In order to graduate from a career tech program in Ohio, students need 12 points, so the spray was probably well worth it for some. Others were clearly regretting their decision to partake.



You know when your team, whether it be a sports team or a fantasy team, loses a big game and you want everyone else to somehow lose the rest of their games just so it’s nothing but misery around you? That’s how I felt this morning. Nothing but a black hole of sadness and hate in the Casa de Clem, which is how I imagine KFC feels every day. And that is why this video brought a huge smile to my face. They say misery loves company and nothing quite says misery like a bunch of high schoolers shrieking and crying their faces off after they volunteered to take pepper spray to the face. Going from one end of the line to the other and watching the pepper spray slowly but surely work it’s magic. I’m not sure what they were expecting pepper spray to feel like, but it was clearly a pain that not even a can of Pepsi would have been able to fix.