Utah Teaching Intern Assigns Students to Design ISIS Poster
In what could be one of the most shocking assignments given to high school students, a teaching intern at Salem Junior High in Salem, Utah asked her students to create a terrorist poster.
Shocked parents immediately demanded an explanation, and one of the concerned parents, Annie Langston, shared with CNN affiliate KSTU how she wrote a letter to Principal Robert Fleming, letting him know of how she thinks another assignment should have been given to her daughter and the rest of the students.
"I feel that a different type of assignment or report could have been chosen," she said, adding that Paris and the whole world are still not over the attacks that took the life of many, and the assignment is just adding fuel to the huge fire.
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The assignment was to create a terrorist propaganda poster that would show how terror organizations like the Islamic State work. Langston's daughter Googled how the ISIS recruitment program works and created a poster with the ISIS flag and big bold letters in red that says "JOIN ISIS."
Langston was told by the school administration that the intern has "profusely" apologized and the assignment was canceled. All of the posters turned in were also shredded, except for the one that Langston's daughter, Mikaila, made since she didn't submit hers.
Nebo School District Public Information Officer Lana Hiskey said the intern was aiming to teach the students how terrorists like the ISIS are using various propaganda, such as posters and videos, to get the support of people who are unknowing of how the twisted system actually works.
"She [intern] did put upfront on the assignment that was handed out that if you were uncomfortable come meet with her for an alternative assignment," Hiskey defended.
The school also issued an apology to Langston, assuring her that the teaching intern has talked to her class and apologized for the assignment that turned the wrong way than she planned.
