[A_perfect_lady]

Our chldren are already being taught to sympathize with the terrorists. In high schools across America, kids are reading Robert Courmier's AFTER THE FIRST DEATH. It's about a group of terrorists (it never says, but it seems obvious by their names, their looks, and the remarks they make, that they are Palestinians).

This group of terrorists takes a school bus full of grade-schoolers hostage. The American general trying to negotiate their release is portrayed as morally reprehensible, the youngest terrorist is portrayed as vulnerable and rather pitiable, and the lead terrorist has a very compelling personality.

Booktalks written by high school students have already appeared on the line indicating that the lead terrorist is a "favorite" character. I sat and watched a high school teacher lead children to the conclusion that the American general and the lead terrorist were simply two sides of the same coin.

When the terrorists take the schools, the students will not even have the moral fortitude to hate their own killers.

[Nowhere Man]

Our chldren are already being taught to sympathize with the terrorists. In high schools across America, kids are reading Robert Courmier's AFTER THE FIRST DEATH. It's about a group of terrorists (it never says, but it seems obvious by their names, their looks, and the remarks they make, that they are Palestinians).

This group of terrorists takes a school bus full of grade-schoolers hostage. The American general trying to negotiate their release is portrayed as morally reprehensible, the youngest terrorist is portrayed as vulnerable and rather pitiable, and the lead terrorist has a very compelling personality.

Booktalks written by high school students have already appeared on the line indicating that the lead terrorist is a "favorite" character. I sat and watched a high school teacher lead children to the conclusion that the American general and the lead terrorist were simply two sides of the same coin.

When the terrorists take the schools, the students will not even have the moral fortitude to hate their own killers.

It's a shame that we have this crap in our schools. First I think the teachers should be given the option to be armed. I know back in the "little red schoolhouse days" the schoolmarm/teacher usually had a shotgun ready to go for all threats like bandits, Indians, wild bears, you name it. I think we need to return to that. I think there should be classes to teach safe firearms handling and promotion of rifle teams. Lastly, like in Robert A. Heinlein's novel, "Starship Troopers," we need to have a "History and Moral Philosophy" class.

Already we are teaching kids to go into "Helsinki Syndrome" mode and sympathize with the terrorists. Personally, they (well the older ones especially) should be taught to look for escape routes, find something to conk the terrorists with, whatever instead of cowering. I've only graduated high school in 1985 and it seems like things have changed so much from even then.

[demosthenes the elder]

ISBN and publisher, please - I wish to go look this up. Distributer(s), politicians who favored this, educators/establishments which pushed for this, and school systems which use this vile tract, please. They all need to be put on the list.

[The_Media_never_lie]

ktalks written by high school students have already appeared on the line indicating that the lead terrorist is a "favorite" character. I sat and watched a high school teacher lead children to the conclusion that the American general and the lead terrorist were simply two sides of the same coin.

Where did you see this reprehensible exercise in moral equivalency?