Cybargs wrote:
its a test to see whos the terrorist in class.
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That's kind of like saying "let's kill the president" isn't provocative because the statement doesn't clarify which one.Ty wrote:
Yeah but that didn't happen did it and this teacher wasn't all "Hey, lets think of ways the Bali Bombings could have killed even more people". I doubt this was in any way malicious, I think a teacher just wanted a way to engage their students and a morbid fascination with chaos and death is, unfortunately, engaging.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Imagine if a teacher in the US decided to group kids up into 'cells' to brainstorm on ways the 9/11 attack could have been improved.Ty wrote:
I've been covering this story for the last week at work and all I could think of the entire time was "man, why didn't any of MY teachers ever set a fun assignment like that?"
What handkerchief?loubot wrote:
Cybargs wrote:
its a test to see whos the terrorist in class.
shocking revelation...the teacher must be an undercover agent of the cyber policeunnamednewbie13 wrote:
That's kind of like saying "let's kill the president" isn't provocative because the statement doesn't clarify which one.What handkerchief?loubot wrote:
Cybargs wrote:
its a test to see whos the terrorist in class.
pssh, it's all about insiders in the subway network. Have subway rail line workers plant bombs in all the subways in major cities on 1 day timers, and then watch them all blow up at once and create maximum pandemonium, then start the DC sniper thing.
Death toll would be fucking insane.
Remember Madrid and London? Now imagine what would happen if it wasn't just bombs.
But then again, subway worker background checks are probably tighter now, and that's a good thing (cause I'm not a terrorist)
Death toll would be fucking insane.
Remember Madrid and London? Now imagine what would happen if it wasn't just bombs.
But then again, subway worker background checks are probably tighter now, and that's a good thing (cause I'm not a terrorist)
CIA have flagged you all
only in australia
are terriosts running out of money or ideas that they are having to turn to kids to come up with ideas
are terriosts running out of money or ideas that they are having to turn to kids to come up with ideas
I suppose if it was a history lesson and they were all pretending to be like their convict ancestors nobody would have complained, once you use the T word suddenly its Muslims and maybe some Irish
Oh wow.KuSTaV wrote:
My grade 9 english teacher said that for the class he had the year before, he made them do an assignment on planning to kill him (the teacher) and make it look like an accident. He said a few came up with some pretty crazy plans.
I found myself wondering what would happen if my last English teacher did this. Nearly everybody in my class hated him. It would have been a lot more interesting than the crap he made us do.
Did your school find out? What was the reaction?
This particular assignment would be interesting in my school becsuse it's a Catholic school in the middle of Protestant East Belfast. People have been shot on the playing fields before and there are a shit load of people I know who are stupid cunts that spew "Tiocfaidh Ár Lá" on their Social network page.Mekstizzle wrote:
once you use the T word suddenly its Muslims and maybe some Irish
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Sounds like it was blown out of proportion tbh. A teacher trying to use an example to make kids research/engage with the ideas of transmission of biological agents.
Of course I could be wrong and this guy is working for al qaeda.
Of course I could be wrong and this guy is working for al qaeda.
Nah, this teacher was a bro. One of my friends wrote a speech about Australia being racist (the class was in 2006, a year after the Cronulla Riots, wiki it). The speech was in first person, and was kinda like a personal dialogue. It included pretty colourful language, one sentence I recall was "You came into my country, you filthy wog. You rape our women, harass our people...". This teacher thought it was absolutely brilliant. My friend got an A+ for it. Now same speech, but in front of the whole grade and a few other teachers for some inter-house speech competition. The other teachers stopped him within 10 seconds of starting.henno13 wrote:
Oh wow.KuSTaV wrote:
My grade 9 english teacher said that for the class he had the year before, he made them do an assignment on planning to kill him (the teacher) and make it look like an accident. He said a few came up with some pretty crazy plans.
I found myself wondering what would happen if my last English teacher did this. Nearly everybody in my class hated him. It would have been a lot more interesting than the crap he made us do.
Did your school find out? What was the reaction?
Needless to say, we were all in stitches from laughter.
noice 
moar liek teh drinking water supply. but where do you get the poison from. i don't think that even a massive amount of rat poison (or any sort of poison that is easily available) would kill anybody if being put in your town's drinking waterjord wrote:
For an A
Poison the food supply.
explosives are also very hard to obtain. i mean real explosives
i guess i would try to derail a big train
Airborne disease into the underground, the ventilation in there is done by trains passing through. The amount of people that use it in a day would mean a massive spread.cl4u53w1t2 wrote:
moar liek teh drinking water supply. but where do you get the poison from. i don't think that even a massive amount of rat poison (or any sort of poison that is easily available) would kill anybody if being put in your town's drinking waterjord wrote:
For an A
Poison the food supply.
explosives are also very hard to obtain. i mean real explosives
i guess i would try to derail a big train
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
All that is too costly. The purpose of terrorism is to raise fear. Easiest way it by raising a doubt in peoples minds about an everyday activity, like eating or drinking. Poison livestock around the country, poision vegatables/fruit etc. Doesn't have to be loads, then the extra security checks and testing that will be implemented will cost millions too.
It gets even easier than that, I don't know any other country that will actually light itself on fire for 3 months of the year. All we have to do is sit back.Spark wrote:
In Australia?
Easy.
Wait til it gets hot and windy (I mean ~40C) and then light a fuckton of fires.
Vancouver here in Canada and California are pretty good at that too.Adams_BJ wrote:
It gets even easier than that, I don't know any other country that will actually light itself on fire for 3 months of the year. All we have to do is sit back.Spark wrote:
In Australia?
Easy.
Wait til it gets hot and windy (I mean ~40C) and then light a fuckton of fires.
This was on CNN?
Teamwork. Naturally.ghettoperson wrote:
I'd love to know what the educational merit of this assignment was supposed to be.
i would love to do this assignment
15 more years! 15 more years!
i bet you would mini-mcveigh
Tu Stultus Es
Go for my idea of shooting people down on streets with 10 pairs of terrorists in 10 largest cities. Shuts down every day activity. Nobody feels safe going outside anymore.jord wrote:
All that is too costly. The purpose of terrorism is to raise fear. Easiest way it by raising a doubt in peoples minds about an everyday activity, like eating or drinking. Poison livestock around the country, poision vegatables/fruit etc. Doesn't have to be loads, then the extra security checks and testing that will be implemented will cost millions too.
I wonder if any of the students read Rainbow Six, or played the first game... Odd...
Someone told me, "Everything in Australia kills you!"
I was listening to a radio show a week or so ago where the new CoD was being discussed. Two of the hosts were going back and forth on the topic, and neither one of them are gamers.
One (the cool, party guy) had gotten a sneak peak at the game and was talking about how cool it is.
The other (uptight band geek, not the "fun" one) was stuck on the fact that one team plays as terrorists, trying to eliminate a team of American solderer, celebrating their deaths. He felt that while we are at war, it is not proper to be role playing killing your troops.
The second guy didn't get that its a fucking video game, it is just fun to play... One team is shooting e-bullets at the other and it does not go much deeper then that.
While I think the argument of the second host is dumb, it is about the equivalent of the criticism here. If anything, at least the school assignment promotes not only creative thinking and viewing things from different perspectives but also forces the student to then express those thoughts concisely and coherently in writing. The video game can be said to offer about the same offensiveness as the assignment, with little more purpouse then mindless entertainment.
The teacher is simply trying to get students to write, and be interested in their work. Regardless of what you think of his ideas, they kind of work. Quite a few people in this thread have said they wish they had an assignment like that. He is not asking his students to actually do it. He is not asking for price lists of supplies... just asking for them to practice writing, and giving them a topic that your typical unmotivated slacker may actually find interesting.
One (the cool, party guy) had gotten a sneak peak at the game and was talking about how cool it is.
The other (uptight band geek, not the "fun" one) was stuck on the fact that one team plays as terrorists, trying to eliminate a team of American solderer, celebrating their deaths. He felt that while we are at war, it is not proper to be role playing killing your troops.
The second guy didn't get that its a fucking video game, it is just fun to play... One team is shooting e-bullets at the other and it does not go much deeper then that.
While I think the argument of the second host is dumb, it is about the equivalent of the criticism here. If anything, at least the school assignment promotes not only creative thinking and viewing things from different perspectives but also forces the student to then express those thoughts concisely and coherently in writing. The video game can be said to offer about the same offensiveness as the assignment, with little more purpouse then mindless entertainment.
The teacher is simply trying to get students to write, and be interested in their work. Regardless of what you think of his ideas, they kind of work. Quite a few people in this thread have said they wish they had an assignment like that. He is not asking his students to actually do it. He is not asking for price lists of supplies... just asking for them to practice writing, and giving them a topic that your typical unmotivated slacker may actually find interesting.
"Okay, class, the Terrorism paper was absolutely brilliant! A few of your fellow students got A's on them, and were invited to be the.. uh... guests of the Americans at an undisclosed location. Now, for this week's project, tell me the best way to set up a drug lab! Meth lab, Coke lab, Pot lab! whichever one you have the most expertise.. err.. interest.. err... ah.. whichever one you can be the most creative with"
Seriously, though. How much of the Politically Correct Groupthink Koolade mix do you have to freebase, that you lose the ability to distinguish between a poorly thought out writing exercise and a terrorist plot?
This isn't just drinking the Koolade, this isn't just Groupthink stupidity and hysteria - this is weapons grade stupid.
Seriously, though. How much of the Politically Correct Groupthink Koolade mix do you have to freebase, that you lose the ability to distinguish between a poorly thought out writing exercise and a terrorist plot?
This isn't just drinking the Koolade, this isn't just Groupthink stupidity and hysteria - this is weapons grade stupid.
Appropriate for a high school history class? Probably not.
Appropriate for someone? ABSOLUTELY!
You don't stop terrorists if you don't think about your vulnerabilities. The good guys pay people to do exactly this sort of thing.
I thought this would have made an interesting assignment--just make sure to make part 2 how to stop the plans from part 1. Then, you get an intellectually stimulating assignment on how to solve problems against a thinking opponent.
Appropriate for someone? ABSOLUTELY!
You don't stop terrorists if you don't think about your vulnerabilities. The good guys pay people to do exactly this sort of thing.
I thought this would have made an interesting assignment--just make sure to make part 2 how to stop the plans from part 1. Then, you get an intellectually stimulating assignment on how to solve problems against a thinking opponent.
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