And now kids, let’s mastermind a terrorist attack
Published: 11 May, 2009, 15:11
Edited: 12 September, 2010, 02:39
TAGS: Children, Terrorism, USA
9th grade students in Colorado, U.S. were asked to plot an act of terrorism in history class. Parents are outraged, with one calling the assignment “ludicrous."
More than 110 students in Pueblo Country High School received a project to in two minutes come up with a plot for a terrorist attack, reported TheDenverChannel.com.
The class was supposed to teach the student about terrorism. The teacher explained that the project was to illustrate a terror attack plotted by a foreign government against the United States.
Having learned about her daughter's school assignment, Gini Fischer was outraged:
"To ask them to use their creative energies to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism is very ludicrous," Fischer was quoted.
Students could have misinterpreted the assignment, said local educational authorities.
Usually, if student illustrates a possible act of terrorism, they are expelled from the school.
All the assignments have been collected from the students and destroyed.
11.05.2009, 11:31
1 comment
Does Obama recycle George W. Bush’s plans?What are the perspectives of NATO expansion? Is U.S. policy in Afghanistan escalating the war in the region? |
12.05.2009, 05:09
3 comments
Nazi “Ivan the Terrible” on plane for Germany– reportThe extradition of Ivan Demjanjuk, a suspected Nazi death camp guard, from the US to Germany is reportedly underway. However, news reports about the extradition from Fox News and CNN TV channels haven’t been confirmed. |
In the late 70's, 9/11 hadn't happened yet. You'd have to be blind and deaf not to notice all the changes in our country since then. The assignment was a really stupid idea, and that teacher should have known how everyone would've reacted.
Not a new idea people. This assignment was being given when I was in high school in the late 70's. Lighten up everybody. It's only an assignment. But the version going around them was to actually do things, like put up notes in unexpected places, that said "Boom. If this was a bomb, you'd be dead." That was probably going too far. But this one sounds like an exercise in understanding what is really going on in the world.
Absolutely assinine. A first-grader was expelled for turning in a pistol he found in the grass (should have left it for the robber to come back for); kids are suspended for drawing an Army guy shooting a terrorist (shouldn't watch the 6 o'clock news with Dad), and now they're supposed to plan a terrorist attack against the US as a high school assignment? Make up your friggin' minds, you zero-tolerance morons; is any hint or mention going to be punished, or do you encourage it? I know I'll be called a racist, but are there any Muslims in the school? Let's offer them a little coaching; who else has been trying to blow us up?