Here's a creative teaching assignment:
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job.
Michael Maxwell, who teaches industrial technology at Central High School, said his request that students in his beginning drafting class describe how they would carry out a murder was merely a writing prompt. It was not clear why he asked the drafting class to write fiction.
There were times in high school when I would have loved to have such an assignment. But I probably would have worried a little bit about the teacher who gave it.
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Lemme get this straight...
Mr. Maxwell, who teaches (beginning) DRAFTING classes (as in mechanical drawing 101) posed this question on "how the students would carry out a murder"...
Got that.
And drafting classes that I took in high school (SIX periods a week) dealt with mechanical PARTS and ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES....
Got that too.
Now....slap me sill and call me Rosey, but what BEARING could his query POSSIBLY have on designing a damn HOUSE or CAR, or MACHINE PART????
You don't WRITE in DRAFTING CLASS...you DRAFT (as in DRAW).
Drafting is about FACT...not fiction...DUH!
It's no wonder that kids are failing the "no child left behind" gig....with drafting teachers asking students about carrying out a murder.
((And here's your sign...lol!))
Hey...maybe he's either looking to sell a script to a network...OR trolling for ideas for HIS house...
(rolls eyes)...ya think?
B.G.
Bob, it makes about as much sense as a geography teacher comparing the sitting President to Hitler. My mom taught high school for 40 years and I suspect she is rolling over in her grave at this type of "education"...