Rather strange homework assignment- plan a terror attack
Students Asked To Plot Terror Attack
PUEBLO, Colo. – A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.
Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism.
Over 110 freshmen at Pueblo County High School were given the project.
The teacher claims the assignment was to illustrate an act of terrorism by a foreign government on American soil.
Fischer says, “To ask them to use their creative energies to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism is very ludicrous.”
District 70 Superintendent Dr. Dan Lere said students may have misinterpreted the assignment.
He says if a student, “actually did illustrate an act of terrorism that they might commit, let’s say against the school, we’ve expelled students for that.”
The school district has decided to collect the assignment from students and destroy them.</em>
Quick thinking on that. It would be awful if some guy in a cave on a dialysis machine came into possession of the scribblings of ninth graders. Imagine what he could do!
