Posted on 05/10/2009 12:19:29 PM PDT by Stoat
Smart kids! I commend you, as a parent, for raising a smart and well-prepared son. :
You’re so right.
Perhaps it is an attempt by the [teacher/administration/school board] to get a glimpse into the political leanings of the families.
“And just where did Johnny get that idea?”
Do you remember some years ago, a teacher gave a writing assignment to her students about murdering someone famous. Some kid wrote about assassinating the president. The teacher took his paper to the principal and the principal took it to the cops. Kid was arrested.
True....could be....regardless, if it isn’t secretly sponsored by official and anti-terrorism entity, then the purpose is nefarious.
For extra credit, compare the results if Abdul uses ANFO and Mohamed uses Semtex.
“a skilled, unbiased teacher”
Good luck trying to find one in an American public school!;)
Step one: Eradicate all the socialist teachers.
“Good luck trying to find one in an American public school!;)”
There are several skilled, unbiased teachers in the US, they’re too busy educating students instead of doing stupid things.
Wow, that’s impressive. My ideas have consisted of figuring out what the best way to exit the room or building was, where the best hiding place was if just getting out wasn’t an option, and depending on those factors what would be the best way to obtain help and notify the relevant authorities of the situation via my phone/ipod/etc without drawing attention to myself.
BTW, playing laser tag or manhunt or other running-hiding-shooting type games inside the building in question, after hours of course, is a great way to figure out these scenarios. When Columbine happened, I realised that extensive hours of playing such things would be an asset if an attack like that was to happen in my church...
Its just like bomb making. When I was a kid, we made bombs. Now a kid can be sent of the river for experimenting with anything not found in a Cracker Jax box. Where are our future munitions inventors going to come from?
People surely do get upset over the most routine and mundane things these days. Cripes, kids can learn a lot more about terrorism just watching TV or the movies.
GROW A SPINE, AMERICANS!!
Bless you soul!! You and I are thinking the same here. It is simply silly to think this will breed little terrorists rather than future protectors.
The citizens of this Nation are insane, as a general rule.
Yeah, one definitely gets the feeling that schools are ph-testing families thru their kids.
That, and, having briefly attended a few “education” courses in college, it might be attributable to just a lack of intelligence.
Hmmm. I had thought that we were the ones that didn’t have enough oxygen, but Pueblo is much lower than us. Bad drugs perhaps? Otherwise, it appears that the intellectual standards necessary to obtain teaching certificate ought to be tightened up a bit in Colorado.
As if this is some kind of life skill kids need to know.
Billy-the-Bomber Ayers, turned child educator, must be SO proud.
That is the point.
“Here ya go kids, you have two minutes, tell us what you are capable of”.
Now, if one were to say, “lighten up, Voter62, it’s a teaching moment!”
I might respond that this kind of assignment in a state where Columbine occured, in a political climate where kids get suspended for bringing headache medicine to school, and where practical sense is waining, conjures up the fifth amendment in my mind.
Of course, there is more to learn of what the complete facts are with regard to the project, I just have doubts about the goal of the project as it was assigned to 190 kids. I would think that would be best handled in small group discussion.
Remember, these are real people that are “teachers” complete with all the tendencies to “gossip”, classify kids, and be part of the crazy beauracracy.
Man, did Asimov predict this stuff?
Mine either but when I was a 9th grader, all I had to worry about was girls.
I think it was an excellet class assignment! 9/11 happened, it will happen again and the sooner our children are taught that fact the better off we will be.
I would rather live with the readiness and reality of the chance of terrorism as does Israel than live in blindness and have to suffer what an unprepared Israeli citizen would eventually endure.
Like the assignments aren’t saved on PCs.
0bama employees in training.
Back when America wasn’t scared of its own shadow and fifth grade kids did crude homemade comics of adventurers and wars and all kinds of totally awesome things, such a writing assignment at the secondary school level wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow (though to be fair it would not be common). Girls might write of putting pills in cake or smothering everyone with jellybeans. Boys might write of setting off dynamite all over the country or an enormous team of snipers with machine guns. Most of it would be pretty silly.
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