High school assignment tells freshmen to plan the 'perfect murder,'

[donnay]

High school assignment tells freshmen to plan the 'perfect murder,' gives them steps to use: Make it 'look like a suicide' or 'accident'; come up with a 'good alibi'

CHRIS FIELD September 28, 2021

Parents of students at a Spokane, Washington, high school are incensed over an assignment given to a freshmen course that required students to plot how to pull off a murder and not get caught, KHQ-TV reported Monday.

The assignment, which was given to ninth graders in a language arts class at Central Valley High School, instructed students to put together "the ingredients of the perfect murder" and included advice such as making it look like a "suicide" or an "accident" and to commit it in a "lonely, isolated place." Now parents are outraged.

Brian Essl, whose son was in the class and told him about the assignment, was astonished.

"He told me they had to create and come up with a plan to murder someone and how to get away with it," Essl told KHQ. "Right off the bat I was, like, are you kidding me?"

After learning about the assignment, Essl posted about it on social media and then shared it with the local news outlet.

The assignment was intended to be a lead-in to the class' reading of Roald Dahl's short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter," which is the tale of a housewife who kills her husband and then schemes to cover it up — and does so successfully.

Students were asked to take 10 ideas provided in a handout, turn them into full sentences, and create at least a paragraph that briefly explains "the perfect murder," KHQ said.

The ideas for helping plot how to murder someone and get away with it included:

a) It should be easy to arrange.
b) It should leave no clues.
c) There should be no noise.
d) It should look like suicide.
e) It should take place in a lonely, isolated place.
f) It should not be cheap.
g) No violence should be necessary.
h) It should look like an accident.
i) It should be quick.
j) The murderer should have a good alibi.

Essl said he talked to other parents who were also concerned about the assignment. He added that it was "out of line" and that "an assignment like that for high school kids should be thought out more than that."

He was especially concerned about the other students' reactions, telling KHQ, "Writing something down like that and exploring the mind of a child like that and getting them to open up their mind in a way like that is just not something you should do. [My son] told me some of the kids were saying, 'We've already planned this out with some of our other friends.' That was disturbing."

After reaching out to the school, Essl said received an email from the teacher saying the assignment had been removed and apologizing for his discomfort.

Central Valley High School released a statement to KHQ saying the assignment "was not appropriate, was not approved nor was it sanctioned by CVHS or Central Valley School District, and is not part of our approved curriculum." The school added that the situation "was addressed and the assignment was changed as soon as it was brought to the attention of the administration and an apology was sent to the entire class last Friday."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/high-school-assignment-perfect-murder

 

[tod evans]

High school assignment tells freshmen to plan the 'perfect murder,'

DMSO/Hg

 

[phill4paul]

This should be an advanced course only available to those with a 4.0+ grade school level.

 

[donnay]

DMSO/Hg

Did you watch Quimcy ME?

 

[tod evans]

Did you watch Quimcy ME?

Whatzit?

 

[Occam's Banana]

Whatzit?

 

[donnay]

Whatzit?

That old medical examiner series played by Jack Klugman. He had a show that no one knew how people were dying, which looked like venous snake bites, but no puncture marks. The murderer got snake venom and mixed it with DMSO to kill his victims.

 

[fisharmor]

The best part of this is these teachers all knew exactly how to smoke pot the first time they saw it because their school inadvertently taught them how to do it, and they're still incapable of seeing a problem with this assignment.

 

[phill4paul]

Hey, the is some good news..

Homeschooling doubles across America!

American businesses, families, and churches all have been hit hard by the last year-plus of COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccination orders, mask mandates and more.

The public school industry, those brick-and-mortar buildings staffed by union members, have been, too, according to new reports from education interests as well as Census data.

Census data found that 11.1% of U.S. households with school-aged children are now homeschooling. That’s double the number from before the pandemic!"

It's a start.

 

[tod evans]

That old medical examiner series played by Jack Klugman. He had a show that no one knew how people were dying, which looked like venous snake bites, but no puncture marks. The murderer got snake venom and mixed it with DMSO to kill his victims.

Ahh, I stopped watching commercial Tee-Vee when Joe Namath started wearing pantyhose...

 

[pcosmar]

Ahh, I stopped watching commercial Tee-Vee when Joe Namath started wearing pantyhose...

Improvised Munitions was classroom material in ROTC.

But I did not graduate from there as a killer.

I graduated from Ft Polk (turning Blue Ceremony)as a trained killer. before I turned 18.

 

[pcosmar]

I graduated from Ft Polk (turning Blue Ceremony)as a trained killer. before I turned 18.

And for any that might misunderstand,, this is a good assessment.

https://theclaymore5150.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-is-sky-infantry-blue.html

From day 1 a grunt is trained to kill the enemy, by any means necessary. Eliminate the competition with extreme prejudice. That's our #1 priority, our mission, our goal, our purpose. Two grunts will talk about the Spirit of the Bayonet with smiles and laughter, whereas any civilian or non-combatant type would be taken aback and SHOCKED at what they have just heard between those two guys.

Some may think that the typical Infantryman has a lower I.Q., is less "educated", and/or less motivated mentally than the average soldier or even civilian. This is SO far off base and incorrect. There is a huge mix of intellect in the infantry. If you were to compare the average ASVAB GT scores, you'd find that grunts have an average GT score on par with the aviation crowd and the technical crowd. Just like anywhere else, there are smart ones and some that can be found "lacking". Another thing to keep in mind is that 1 in 4 people who take the ASVAB test will FAIL.

Several didn't survive the physical training,, even with the heart for it.

We are adventurous spirits who typically possess abnormally high standards and work ethics. We are sore losers because we cannot stand failure or sub-par performance. We embody the importance of Standard Operating Procedures and excel in the gray areas between black and white. We love to meet things head-on, but beware our brothers who are coming at your flanks. We give everything we have to win, and then we'll give out our own supplies to those that need it more.

and i still poke fun at the Jar-heads threaded brows.

and aside,@AF. 6 of me could run your boat. (guessing you have at least ten,,and I've seen your boat)

and one of me is a good Cook.