This is absolutally DISGUSTING!!!! Thinking about terror from a different perspective?! WHat was this teacher THINKING?!?!?!?!?!?!?! http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-1...VsYXIEc2xrA3Jhd3ZpZGVvZmlyZQ--#video=21586980
Did something like this happen in the USA fairly recently, too? I have only vague memories.... Anyhow. Um. Yeah. Wow. This assignment could have been titled, "do your homework but be aware you'll probably be arrested." If the assignment was a chemistry project designed to expose potential weaknesses that need to be addressed, I could understand. But not like this. If there's one group that does not warrant the "walk a mile in their shoes" kind of thinking, terrorists are it.
Well the crazy part is that the teacher wanted them to "see it from another perspective". Why?! Why do kids need to know what a terrorist feels, or plans? I don't see how that particular assignment has anything constructive to do with teaching our children.
I had a teacher in high school (long before all this terrorism stuff... long before 9/11...) who taught us how to create "the perfect national disaster" and also how to kill someone without anyone finding the body. It was an advanced physics class my senior year. Oddly enough, I ended up with the same teacher in college for both physics and environmental science. LOL! Here's the thing, though... I'm glad he taught us those lessons... The teacher who taught us those things was (1) a very well respected teacher who'd been around for eons of years, and (2) someone who knew our class very well (and our parents, too). I came from a small town where everyone knew everyone, everyone went to church on Sunday, you know... the Mayberry type. The point he was trying to make wasn't to get us to blow up the nation, but to show just how easily someone else could do it and why we needed to be on alert. Imagine that... a few years later, someone did try to blow us up. I never forgot what he taught us, I know what the terrorists did wrong on 9/11 (why relatively few died based on the original attack plan), and how easily they could fix the plan next time. I don't agree with what this particular teacher (original post) was trying to teach or the approach used to teach it, but I DO think that students need to be taught how to think, need to be taught how to react in emergency or terror situations, and need to know just how vunerable we are to unseen threats. We feel so secure in suburbia with Friday night football, church on Sunday, grocery shopping, sleep overs... life. We're not as secure as we think we are.
Exactly. That's what I was trying to say when I mentioned a chemistry project designed to expose weakness. But you said it a million times better than me. lol
Tasteless in the extreme. To have her back teaching a few days later??? Um maybe a formal apology to the students as well would have been good. I am so sick of teachers making huge mistakes like that and then justifying it as a lapse in judgment. Come on really!???
