Posted on 11/18/2006 5:47:29 AM PST by veronica
SMITHFIELD, N.C. -- A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate.
Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle.
Some students started uncovering strange words in the process.
"There were words like 'kill,' then I saw it said 'destroy America,'" Eric Herrera said.
As they read on, students found the puzzle contained a paragraph that contained the following phrases:
"Sharon killed a lot of innocent people," a possible reference to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Palestine is not a terrorist group."
"Allah help destroy this body of evil making humanity miserable."
"It was kind of scary at first to think about, you know, your own teacher in your own school that is teaching you," Herrera said.
School administrators said they confronted Chahhou about an unidentified concern Wednesday and he resigned.
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WTF?!
Obviously this "teacher" is not a professor of subtlety.
A Spanish teacher named "Khalid"?
Nothing to see here. Probably one of those radical Central American Catholics. /sarc
What a jerk.
BUMP - Unbelievable
Wow.
You expect this sort of thing in San Francisco, but North Carolina?!
What is amazing is that they got him to resign. I hope they also called the FBI.
I'm sure the Johnston County school district was conviced that Mr. Khalid Chahhou is one of those "moderate" muslims who abhors terrorism. Now they are disappointed and deeply saddened to learn he is not. How many more are like this? 15%? 20%?
If anybody had any balls they would yank this piece of garbage out of the school immediately. But as always, nobody stands up and does anything. Shrugs abound.
It's all about diversity and "feeling their pain". What's the problem? /sarcasm
What did he resign for? The NEA and ACLU would have backed him to the hilt and made him a national hero to boot. Maybe he's new in the US and doesn't realize how truly welcome he is.
Yeah? I wonder where in the US this guy will go next? I hope they track him.
http://www.carymasjid.org/IqraBrochure_2006Fall.pdf
Looks like the "teacher" is/was the head teacher at an Islamic Study seminar.
Ironically, had he been teaching at Columbia University he'd had been given tenure.
A SPANISH teacher named KHALID??? Our school system is so screwed up.
good for the parents.
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