Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack

Tired of looking at an endless parade of dioramas, an Australian teacher had her class plan a terrorist attack that would "kill as many innocent Australians as possible." "The teacher, with every best intention, was attempting to have the students think through someone else's eyes about conflict. I think there are better ways to do that. ... This is not what we expect of professional educators," said Sharyn O'Neill, director-general of the state's Department of Education.

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Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[madddddddddd]

let the adults think about it...

It was a TRAP!!

[oldhack]

You stupid tiny anklebiters!

Ship the little shits over to GitMo.

answers

[A3gis]

Heh, i can't help but bet half the answers went along the lines of: "take 4 hostages, put them in the upstairs office inside a warehouse, then wait at strategic points covering the roller door, back door, and ceiling air duct for Counter Terrorist forces."

Well, duh

[gman003]

First, you grab the BFG. Then, make a run for the enemy flag. Circle-strafe and rocket-jump when you need the elevation. It's that simple. You could probably gib the entire Pacific that way.

I mean, seriously, it's so obvious!

Zombie Apocolypse

[hoggoth]

The teacher should have de-politicized it and asked the students to make plans for surviving an upcoming zombie apocalypse. As a side benefit many geeks would already have their plans worked out.

Re:Terrorist lego

[Kell Bengal]

Brick Arms

You're welcome.

Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[Hognoxious]

At some point you are overexposing a younger mind to violence and social disorder.

These are Australians, they're genetically predisposed towards those kind of things anyway.

Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[sourcerror]

Haven't you heard, Big Brother loves you?

Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[Hognoxious]

If you had read TFA, the aim is to "kill as many innocent Australians as possible.",

Yes, as part of a hypothetical, theoretical scenario.

It would hardly be realistic in context if the aim was maximizing the number of yummy cakes eaten, would it?

Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[Abstrackt]

Didn't britian found austrailia to get rid of it's terrorists?

Britain only claimed the eastern half, and not just terrorists ended up there.

Oh, right, I'm on Slashdot, what I meant to say was "whoosh".

Re:How do you anticipate weak points

[GameboyRMH]

Wish I could have done that in place of gym class :D

By other "unnamed" ugly places, do you think Sgt. Doom might have meant Mars or Phobos? :P

Funny story, once when I was a little kid I climbed up some weird thing in a school gymnasium (it was like a box made of ladders with two sides missing). I guess nobody saw where I went until I was on top of it. I was looking way down at my teachers who were freaking out, I don't remember how tall it was but it felt like I was waaaaay up there. I was totally calm until my teachers started yelling at me. I just didn't see what the big deal was that everyone wanted me to come down so badly.