A ninth grade teacher at Salem Junior High School in Salem, Utah wanted her students to think about a pretty serious problem recently — how ISIS and other terrorist groups use propaganda to recruit people.
But her approach was a little misguided. She gave the kids a homework assignment where THEY had to make a propaganda poster for a terrorist group.
A parent named Annie Langston found out about the assignment when she saw her 14-year-old daughter type “how to recruit for ISIS” into Google. So she wrote a letter to the school asking for an explanation.
Then the teacher and the principal had to apologize, and SHREDDED all the posters the kids made. The school district issued an official apology on Friday too.
As far as we know, the teacher didn’t get suspended or fired.
