Teacher Asks Students to Think Like a Terrorist

District 70 Superintendent Dr. Dan Lere told the Denver 7 News he believes that the students “misinterpreted the assignment.” According to the news channel, Lere added that in the past, students who wrote about terrorist plots, especially anything that targeted the school, might have been expelled.

According to KKTV, a Colorado TV Web channel, Gini Fisher said her daughter explained the assignment to her in this way: “She said you have two minutes to write down on a piece of paper what your act of terrorism would be if you were to come up with an act of terrorism.”

The teacher responsible for the assignment has not been identified. According to KKTV, whether disciplinary action will be taken is still unclear. The assignments will be confiscated and destroyed.

Incidents of teachers who intentionally or accidentally incite debate inside the classroom are numerous.

On May 1, a court ruled that teacher James Corbett had violated his first amendment rights by “disparaging Christians during a classroom lecture,” the Orange County Register reported.

The Register explained that Corbett, a teacher at Capistrano Valley High School for 20 years, referred to Creationism as “religious, superstitious nonsense.”

Chad Farnan, a sophomore student when the trial began, brought the charges against Corbett. His lawyer, Jennifer Monk, who works for a Christian legal advocacy group reported, “We are thrilled with the judge’s ruling and feel it sets great precedent.”

In July, Jon Freshwater, a teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, was forced by the school board to resign after “preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students’ arms.”

 

On KKTV’s site, one commenter, who describes herself as an English teacher, writes, “[T]o tell children to come up with their OWN terrorism act is absolutley (sic) horrifying … Why not ask them to journal about what gang they would like to join?”

While an anonymous commenter on Channel 7’s site sympathized with the teacher, adding, “I have done an assignment like this in a college course to get in the mindset of our enemy so that we may better prepare ourselves for those ‘What if..’ scenarios.”

 

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