Students Asked To Plot Terror Attack

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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.

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They probably could predict probable scenarios as well as some people in government.

[morgan2]

1. I'd come up with a comically complex plan

to spoil a sand castle building contest.

[Buzz Clik]

2. It's not clear, but I do hope you are not supporting this teacher's assignment.

My niece was in the Columbine school district when that little terrorist plot played out. My brother had her attending a Catholic high school down the road, but she lost friends that day.

People's sensitivities about terror in schools are much too high to play this sort of game.

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3. No.

That's too dangerous a role playing assignment.