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And now kids, let’s mastermind a terrorist attack
Published: 11 May, 2009, 15:11
Edited: 12 September, 2010, 02:39
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."
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.
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?
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.