Are classrooms across the country so lacking in subject matter that they must now resort to how-to guides for designing and implementing an act of terrorism?  It looks that way for a school in Colorado.  One hundred middle school students were given an assignment that required them to develop an act of terrorism and how each of them would go about implementing it in this country.  They were allowed two minutes to develop it in their minds.  There are countless parents who are not only angry, but are disgusted and sickened by this

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assignment.  The teacher’s credibility is being questioned too, especially since he/she can’t come up with any kind of a response to the many questions being asked.  The teacher does say it was just an exercise meant to illustrate terrorism by a foreign country on American soil.  Most will agree it has been illustrated enough over the past several years.

The school superintendent isn’t helping matters either and insists the students must have misunderstood the assignment.  That’s not likely since there are over 100 kids relaying the same story - anyone who’s ever had teenagers knows how impossible it is to get two teens to agree on anything, much less 100-plus.  He explains the assignment must have been misunderstood because had any student actually illustrated such an act, it would have resulted in immediate expulsion.  This redefines a vicious cycle.

Anything related to this project that was memorialized on paper has been destroyed.  Still, it’s not like the blackboards we remember from school - you can’t erase this.  With the end of the school year nearing, this will most likely go down as a poor choice of assignments and will be forgotten as soon as the kids barrel through their school doors for the last time this year.

There are questions that still linger, however.  This couldn’t have been part of curriculum and if it was, a major revamping effort is overdue.  There’s very little, if any, educational benefit from assigning this project and certainly not within the 120 seconds each student was allotted.

I’m sure most of these parents believe there was a better way to close out the school year than this.  It was in poor taste with no obvious benefits.

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