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G'day class, today we're going to plot a terrorist attack in Australia

Military academy students are taught some of this...but they are also being conditioned with a military mindset. We are talking average civilians...15 year olds...and this was plain and simple an idiotic endeavor.

OK...revised...

In my opinion...this was plain and simple an idiotic endeavor. Done and done.
 
The first step in stopping future attacks is to learn how to do such attacks.

As I said, the same could be said for a school shoot 'em up.
 
I'd be curious to know if the people who find little wrong with the teachers assignment to plot to kill as many people as possible to get their political message across, are the same people who oppose teaching sex education in public schools.
 
Do you really think that's beyond the grasp or the reach of 15 year-olds? Simply poisoning a water supply? Finding some kind of way to spread disease? Making it as effective as they could make it?

Particularly when part of the assignment, specifically, is researching exactly how to do these things?

Sorry; there is no difference.

do you really think that a school assignment is going to trigger students into becoming terrorists?
 
To have them plan a terrorist attack on paper, think it through? How could it not?

and i'm sure this'll be a major impact on their psyche, much more than any of the movies or crap TV shows about terrorism that come out of Hollywood. :roll:

Where did I say that?

you agreed with maggie's statement that the planning of a terrorist attack is the same as planning rape, so therefore the actions of raping and terrorism must be equivalent too, otherwise how could they be equivalent?
 
do you really think that a school assignment is going to trigger students into becoming terrorists?

When did I say that? Never.

Nor would an assignment to plan out a school shooting trigger students to shoot up their school. But it could make them more aware.
 
You guys have to be kidding. Creative? Brilliant? It couldn't be a more destructive idea. I hope whoever this is gets fired or at the very least severely disciplined.

It devalues the horror of terrorist attacks and their destructive nature.

I think there's huge potential to come up with several, "what ifs", that the counter terrorists folks could really benefit from. There was many a time when I was in the service that we were assigned the task to figure out how to counter American battlefield doctrine. It was a, "let's see what the troops can come up with", sorta thing.

Now, having said that if this is some sorta, "let's try and be politically correct and relate to the Islamofacists", kinda thing, then it's bull****.
 
We teach people in the military, law enforcement, intelligence, and emergency services about possible targets for terrorist attacks. I honestly don't see the harm of teaching this to the primary targets of terrorism, civilians. I attended a similar class on terrorism when I was 16, and I didn't put anthrax in my town's drinking supply.
 
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Wow :lol:

The teacher chose a wrong topic but at least he encourages creativity!
eah Well. Western Australians - what can you say??

Mind you we don't need no stinkin' terrorists - remember a disaster exercise I did for a subject I was studying - they put forth a scenario based on a real possiblity - Gold mining area so Sodium Cyanide regularly carried on trucks through town - mix that with rain = cyanide gas
 
I personally see nothing wrong with this. It's just getting kids to be creative. Albeit in a slightly strange manner. But I mean it's no worse then asking them to write a story or read a book. I mean do you know how many stories out there have some kind of death or violence? Can't let teenagers who are on the verge of being adults be exposed to anything that might be slightly violent :roll:
 
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