Australian teacher assigns students to plan a terrorist attack to kill as many as possible

Fox News ^ | 8/25/2010

[markomalley]

A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent Australians as possible had no intent to promote terrorism, education officials said Wednesday.

The Year 10 students at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School in the state of Western Australia were given the assignment last week in a class on contemporary conflict and terrorism.

Principal Terry Martino said he withdrew the assignment as soon as he heard of it.

But after news of the assignment was published in Wednesday's West Australian newspaper, talk radio and online forums began a busy debate and some survivors of terror attacks across Australia — which has been a target of terror campaigns at home and abroad — came forward to express their outrage.

"It's extremely offensive if you've ever been involved in it," said Peter Hughes, who was burned over half of his body in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, on the Indonesian resort island.

"It's something they would probably do in some radical school in Indonesia. For it to be done in the state education system is mind-blowing," he told the newspaper.

The students were asked to pretend they were terrorists making a political statement by releasing a chemical or biological agent on "an unsuspecting Australian community," according to a copy of the assignment received by the West Australian newspaper.

The task included choosing the best time to attack and explaining their choice of victims and what effects the attack would have on a human body.

"Your goal is to kill the MOST innocent civilians in order to get your message across," the assignment read.

[Scythian]

Wha ..... ?

[Eye of Unk]

I bet all the Muslim kids aced it, straight A’s and in record time. With circles and arrows on 9x12 photo glossy paper no less.

Oh and GPS coordinates, and how to get the MSM involved as well.

[killermedic]

I can see both sides of the argument and you are right that it will cause a certain amount of paranoia, so you are right... this type of education needs to be monitored and not done half-arsed. I think we are seeing the same coin just from other sides....