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Utah School Under Fire for Asking Students to Write ISIS Propaganda Poster
ABC News ^ | November 20, 2015 | ESTHER CASTILLEJO

Posted on 11/20/2015 3:17:08 PM PST by sparklite2

The teacher, who's been on the job for just a few months, gave the in-class assignment to students in her two World Civics classes at Salem Junior High School in Salem, Utah, on Wednesday. About 60 students received the assignment, which required them to create a "neat, colored, professional" poster for the terrorist group, to "help students better understand the goals of terrorist groups and the methods they use to gain support," the assignment read.

The possibility of having to search for ISIS recruiting material on the web at a time when officials are looking to detect potential threats was alarming, Langston said.

"She did this innocently, she's a naive young teacher," Hiskey said. "She wants to do the right thing."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: education; isis; islam; utah
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To: digger48

Heh. That is mighty curious.


41 posted on 11/20/2015 4:36:25 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
World Civics, the class she was reported as teaching in the article, would leave me to believe the teacher was more than likely Sierra Marchand. She's the only name within the history department whose picture isn't shown. This most likely is because she is so new that they haven't had a chance to take one, or they removed her picture so people searching for her wouldn't see what she looked like.

Any way, that's my guess.

42 posted on 11/20/2015 4:36:32 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

That’s her and her pic is upthread.


43 posted on 11/20/2015 4:37:28 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

Oh okay, that wasn’t there when I clicked on his link, then got distracted by my wife and had to leave the puter.


44 posted on 11/20/2015 4:45:13 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: SgtHooper

Appropriate, but sounds like an even better way to get suspended or expelled than my poster.


45 posted on 11/20/2015 4:45:24 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: BobL
Of course it could, because the real problem is the way she was taught in teacher college. These kinds of screwy-logic projects are the food of teacher training at the university level. The liberal profs just eat it up. College-level teacher training is almost completely untenable in a real-life setting.

First-year teaching is very much an on-the-job learning experience and mistakes are part of the trial by fire. Additionally, most young teachers don't have children of their own and lack experience with how their teaching affects the children, their parents and the district's community. All they see is a clever idea to portray a concept.

I made quite a number of cringe-worthy errors my first year. Fortunately, they didn't get out into the public. I had a friend a couple of years behind me tell me of a project he was going to do with his class. I was shocked and said he couldn't do it the way he envisioned. It involved getting input from BOTH parents of each student or get an F on the project. I said he would be surprised to learn that perhaps half of his students wouldn't have access to both parents and he would be issuing a grade based on the students' circumstances rather than learning effort. His noble goal was to try to open communication between the students and their parents, but the reality was the assignment was punitive and discriminatory.

46 posted on 11/20/2015 5:35:05 PM PST by Shugee
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To: sparklite2

was this a public skool?

my kid’s public skool class once received an assignment to produce a poster for the then-upcoming election between clinton and dole. he produced a dole poster and was promptly ostracized by his classmates, who had all produced clinton posters, when the time came to display the posters in class.

i immediately informed the teacher that the assignment was counter to the concept of the anonymous vote. the teacher agreed, and changed the assignment to a group assignment.

my kid got the message, and the group (like all other groups in the class) produced a clinton poster.

i decided that, for the sake of my kid, trying to reason with the teacher was not in his best interests.

i did not have any personal experience with attending public elementary schools as a student. in parochial school, we would always deride public skool students. they could not spell, and their grammar sucked, so their own writing easily identified them as public skool products. that was in the 1960s, and things apparently have gone downhill in public skools from there.


47 posted on 11/20/2015 5:43:01 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Shugee

“Of course it could, because the real problem is the way she was taught in teacher college. “

I know that, but there are so many SMUG FReepers that believe it can “only happen there” that the public schools can get away with this crap.

It’s UNIVERSAL in this country - any small town in Nebraska is filled with teachers that went to the SAME COLLEGES as those in Chicago. NO PLACE IS SAFE...the only difference being that inner city parents know their schools are disasters (but don’t have the resources or political power to do anything about it), while those in the ‘burbs are convinced that their schools are JUST WONDERFUL (as we continue to be the laughing stock of the world).


48 posted on 11/20/2015 5:50:43 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SteveH
Salem Junior High is a public school. I guess renaming junior highs to middle school isn't standard practice everywhere. The school is 95% white. The only review on the school's review page is not, it is hoped, representative of its scholastic output.

Bullies are bad teacher can be really mean one was mrs Wolfgang made me cry a few times no help really made me want to dissapear i hated waking up when i went there

49 posted on 11/20/2015 5:54:43 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: SteveH

It’s always the unforeseen/unintended consequences that get you. Most of these “clever” projects are ill-conceived from the start, and changing a part of the project just skews the problem in another direction rather than eliminating the problem altogether - similar to the writing of government laws.


50 posted on 11/20/2015 5:56:33 PM PST by Shugee
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To: BobL

Oh, sorry, I see your original statement was “sarcastic”. Ack - it’s hard to read intent without hearing voice inflections. I’m an ex Texas school teacher who was Texas teacher college trained, so I jumped on your statement a bit too hastily. Apologies.


51 posted on 11/20/2015 6:05:31 PM PST by Shugee
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To: Shugee

Not at all!!! No need to apologize - I was trying to bait people that are not as informed - but maybe they actually believed me.


52 posted on 11/20/2015 6:12:00 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: sparklite2

I dont know. I was hoping that others could make a suggestions based on her appearance and the background from the article about her being young and naive..


53 posted on 11/20/2015 6:23:38 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

#witeprivlege_eh


54 posted on 11/20/2015 6:30:30 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: Robert DeLong
the google image search had a cached copy..so I copied it and saved it for posting here

I tgink they pulled the images...that larger one.. and the thumbnail version

let her embarassment at being outed....educate her future behavior this one looks like the culpritess





like fer shure../
55 posted on 11/20/2015 6:36:55 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: digger48

thats right....... and a lunch crew thats nearly as large...


56 posted on 11/20/2015 6:37:35 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

At that school the largest department appears to be “lunch.”


57 posted on 11/20/2015 6:38:37 PM PST by truth_seeker (come with the outlws.)
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To: SteveH

Your CAPS key must be stuck down. Stop shouting.


58 posted on 11/20/2015 6:45:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: truth_seeker

word is that they require a HUGE staff just to try... to comply with Mooch Obummers...Luncheon Edicts!


59 posted on 11/20/2015 7:04:14 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: BBell

looks pretty vacant....doesnt she....


60 posted on 11/20/2015 7:05:03 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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