Posted on 05/10/2009 12:19:29 PM PDT by Stoat
I vote crazy teacher, not attempt to suss out another Columbiner.
At least nobody pointed a chicken leg at anybody...
Hot Tabasco wrote: “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. “
That is a good point.
It assumes, though,that the current US government policy makers and Department of Education, locally and nationally, thinking is that our nation SHOULD defend itself from enemies of foreign lands.
There just has been too much from DHS, schools and media showing the bias towards not only apologizing to the world, but disarming the citizenry, “letting the government protect us” and leaving all thinking to the “professionals” while having an inccredibly porous border.
There is just too much nonsense in the politics of airport security, profiling, and pc speak ESPECIALLY in public schools for me to believe this exercise posed in the stated manner had postive values.
Perhaps, if it was stated that the kids had a week to come up with a terrorist plot and THEN they had the “Jack Bauer” two minutes to come up with a solution, I could see it.
It would be interesting to devine the nature of the exercise by knowing the questions and how they were presented.
reminds me of when I ran across a 9th grade teacher teaching “Harry Potter” as literature. Yikes!
(1) Find someone who grew up with terrorists, goes to an anti-American church, and absolutely hates the United States,
(2) Teach that person to deliver pretty but empty words perfectly from the teleprompter
(3) Find a billionaire who hates America enough to fund a presidential campaign for a terrorist
(4) Have your billionaire (code name - Soros) buy the White House for your terrorist (code name - Barack)
Mission accomplished!
Understanding this nation's enemies? Thinking about vulnerabilities in our infrastructure? Considering ways they and their families may be in danger? Synthesizing history with current events to predict the future? Absolutely those are life skills kids need to know.
What do you think of this? Maybe I ought to ask Sassy how fast she can plan a terror attack on the brothers in 2 min & see what she comes up with? It might be interesting. lmao with a WEFG.
In today’s world, the top priority is for a teacher to tell the parents she’s encouraging “creativity” in their offspring.
In this same school I would hazard a guess that these same children would be expelled from that same school for only the possession of a picture of a weapon, But not for planning a terror attack!
What next? The planning of the assassination of a president? Or perhaps an ex-president as part of a class curriculum?
We live in strange days indeed.
But I would also hazard another guess that any of these children would be taken into Federal custody at any other school in the nation if they were found to be in possession of even an outline of one of these "Class Assignments."
Ya gotta wonder about the wisdom of any type of assignment such as this.
Sorry, did I say "wisdom?"
Fire the teacher and FAST!!
“Creativity” has become a holy word in education - tje teacher would be praised for doing nothing more than making the kids think “outside the box.” If a youngster’s art work looks like nothing more than bird droppings, the teacher will praise it to the skies as “creative.” In short, in today’s schools there are no standards for disciplined work, for right and wrong, for good and bad, for logic or clear thinking. Minds educated on empty feel-good sound bites (”Way to go, Johnny”; “Yes he can...)vote for a president who speaks in empty sound bites.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!
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