I’m at a bit of a loss here... so tell me again why this assignment was a bad thing? It seems to me that the teacher is guilty only of thinking “outside the box” (which is usually only an offense when it’s conservatives thinking outside the box!). I actually think this could have been an excellent assignment, handled correctly. It would have taught students how very easy it is to come up with ways to hurt our society, and how difficult to guard against people who only want to destroy the Western way of life. It seems to me that students today are cushioned against every little sharp edge of life. Maybe this would have let them think seriously about the difficulties of guarding our society. They could have had many excellent discussions ranging from this — philosophical discussions about torture (what is torture, what is NOT torture, why or why not societies choose to use it and why some societies see it as justified), discussions about law enforcement and the laws that have been created to protect us from terrorism, whether or not those laws are too farreaching ... oh, I could go on and on. In the hands of a skilled, unbiased teacher this could have been excellent. A real learning moment. Now it’s just a mess.
“a skilled, unbiased teacher”
Good luck trying to find one in an American public school!;)
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.