A school teacher who set an assignment for her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent Australians as possibler did not seek to promote terrorism, education officials said today.
The Year 10 students at Kalgoorlie-Boulder community high school in Western Australia were given the assignment last week in a class on contemporary conflict and terrorism.
You guys have to be kidding. Creative? It couldn't be a more destructive idea.
how? what harm could it cause?
Okay, class, for your homework assignment tonight, pick from the following:
#1 -- How to commit the perfect murder.
#2 -- Best ways to rape a girl and get away with it.
#3 -- How to blow up the school with products made from home.
Some ideas are just so stupid and wrong ya' just can't put it into words.
'cause that ain't a strawman :roll:
it wasn't teaching them how, it was a hypothetical, it didn't teach 'em how to make or plant a bomb, just when and where, and it's not like they couldn't figure that out without doing it at school. When i was in high school, our history teacher, just for fun, told us to figure out how we'd go about invading Australia as the Japanese in WW2, i got an A, i was very proud of that, but does that mean i'm going to become supreme commander of the Japanese army and do it does it?
do you really think your average Aussie 15 year old is going to go and become a terrorist simply 'cause they did an assignment? does that not sound the teeniest bit ridiculous to you?
I don't understand your first sentence? What's the strawman? These are examples of the very same thing. Okay, maybe change "the school" to "your local bank." I fail to see a difference. What is the difference to you?
G'day class, today we're going to plot a terrorist attack in Australia | World news | The Guardian
Wow :lol:
The teacher chose a wrong topic but at least he encourages creativity!
you don't see anything wrong with the comparison that asking kids to entertain the hypothetical of when and where they'd stage an attack to teaching them how to rape someone is a bit bull****? they are crimes of completely different nature, they didn't teach the kids how to make a bomb or a chemical weapon, a proper comparison would be on how to choose a good spot to rape someone, but not telling them what to use to rape them, assuming these kids penises are very complicated to build and could easily go off in their faces and kill them.
the simple fact is, if any of these kids are planning on staging a terrorist attack, this isn't going to make a damn difference as they would've figured that out anyway, and if they weren't planning on staging a terrorist attach, this wouldn't have changed a damn thing.
(I've snipped at various points.)The students were asked to pretend they were terrorists making a political statement by releasing a chemical or biological agent on "an unsuspecting Australian community", according to a copy of the assignment.
The task included choosing the best time to attack and explaining their choice of victims and what effects the attack would have on a human body. "Your goal is to kill the MOST innocent civilians in order to get your message across," the assignment read.
"If it was intended to teach them about the impact, the effect of terrorism on innocent people and to try and extract sympathy, empathy and regretfulness in the aftermath, then I think that it's a positive move. Anything else and it's plainly stupid."
Kalgoorlie-Boulder student Sarah Gilbert, 15, told the newspaper she was horrified by the assignment.
(I've snipped at various points.)
This assignment was insensitive, stupid, unprofessional and a host of other derogatory adjectives one could come up with. My examples are no different. Hypothetical terrorist attack=hypothetical rape attack=hypothetical bombing attack="pretend you're a murderer." Just plai ridiculous.
(I've snipped at various points.)
This assignment was insensitive, stupid, unprofessional and a host of other derogatory adjectives one could come up with. My examples are no different. Hypothetical terrorist attack=hypothetical rape attack=hypothetical bombing attack="pretend you're a murderer." Just plai ridiculous.
G'day class, today we're going to plot a terrorist attack in Australia | World news | The Guardian
Wow :lol:
The teacher chose a wrong topic but at least he encourages creativity!
I am going to come down on the side of saying this was a god lesson.
insensitive to whom? there hasn't been a terrorist attack on Australian soil since 1915, stupidity is a matter of opinion, and the teachers profession is to teach, and that's what this assignment was doing.
and i still don't think those things are equal, and repeating it won't change that.
personally, i if was going to plant a chemical weapon, it would be in the underground areas of Flinders Street Station, so there it could spread through the Melbourne Loop to the other 4 underground stations, and i'd do it at about 5:30pm, to catch the people on their way home from work.
****, now i must be a terrorist.
i know us Aussies are the best and all but i'm not sure the teacher was quite that good.
I'll simply agree to disagree. This is so stupid it's not worth arguing about.
I fixed it you smartass.
I really can't for the life of me figure out how this wouldn't be the same as assigning kids the task of -- hypothetically -- planning to shoot up a school. Any argument you want to put in favor of this teacher's assignment would apply equally well to that.
Well, my daughter is about the same age as those high-school students and I've been trying to think about what my reaction would be if she came home with such an assignment. I guess it would depend on how the assignment was worded and what the follow up discussion to it would be. I think the teacher in the article used the wrong language in the assignment and she didn't make it clear enough if there would be a discussion about the impact the fictional attack would have on the people who survived it, their families and the country as a whole. I also agree with the poster who said that the assignment should have been a two-parter covering both the terrorist attack and the best ways to prevent it.
(I've snipped at various points.)
This assignment was insensitive, stupid, unprofessional and a host of other derogatory adjectives one could come up with. My examples are no different. Hypothetical terrorist attack=hypothetical rape attack=hypothetical bombing attack="pretend you're a murderer." Just plai ridiculous.
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