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Teacher's Assignment to HS Students: Plan a Deadly Terror Attack
Associated Press ^ | 8/25/10 | Staff

Posted on 08/25/2010 9:14:25 AM PDT by Nachum

ADELAIDE, Australia – ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assignment; attack; teachers; terror

1 posted on 08/25/2010 9:14:28 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2577027/posts


2 posted on 08/25/2010 9:16:04 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Nachum

getting fresh ideas?


3 posted on 08/25/2010 9:17:05 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Nachum

Dingbats? in Australia? Blimey!


4 posted on 08/25/2010 9:19:54 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: cranked

Ach. I did do a search. :(


5 posted on 08/25/2010 9:20:15 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

No biggie, I was too lazy to copy-n-paste my comment there to yours. ;-)


6 posted on 08/25/2010 9:22:19 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Nachum

I think I know a “community center” in New York about to be built that that teacher might want to send a resume to...


7 posted on 08/25/2010 9:39:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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And give him lessons too...


8 posted on 08/25/2010 9:49:47 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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