A Utah junior high school is apologizing after a ninth-grade teacher gave students an assignment to draw a propaganda poster for the Islamic State terrorist organization.
The students at Salem Junior High School were also asked to do a Google search for “how to recruit for ISIS” as part of the assignment.
“My initial response was, ’There’s no way you are going to do this assignment,’ ” Annie Langston said she told her 14-year-old daughter Mikalia, a local Fox affiliate reported.
Ms. Langston decided to write a letter to the school’s principal asking for an explanation.
“In light of what happened in Paris, is that the reason for this assignment? I feel a different assignment or report could’ve been chosen or a discussion in class about the tragic events,” she wrote, Fox reported.
Soon after sending the letter, Ms. Langston received a response from the teacher apologizing for the misunderstanding and informing her the assignment had been cancelled. She also received a phone call from the school principal.
“They’ve sat down with this particular teacher, and it has been taken care of,” Ms. Langston told Fox. “The assignments that have already been turned in, they have been shredded.”
Many students had already completed the assignment, and parents are concerned about what kind of information their children might have been exposed to while researching the assignment on the Internet.
• Kellan Howell can be reached at khowell@washingtontimes.com.
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