Middle schoolers asked to pick who lives and who dies

[Kyle]

The Earth is about to blow up and there’s only room on the spaceship for eight passengers. So who gets left behind?

Seventh graders at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio were assigned the task last week of deciding who got to live and who was doomed to be blown to smithereens.

The “Whom To Leave Behind” lesson has caused quite a lot of outrage among moms and dads who believe the assignment sends the wrong message to their children.

For the assignment students were asked to choose between a list of 12 hypothetical people. Four would be left behind because “tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed.”

There was an accountant with a substance abuse problem, a militant African-American medical student, a 33-year-old Native American manager who does not speak English, the accountant’s pregnant wife, a famous novelist with a physical disability, a 21-year-old female Muslim international student, a female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault, a homosexual male professional athlete, an Asian orphaned 12-year-old boy, a 60-year-old Jewish university administrator, and a Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality.


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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ers-asked-to-pick-who-lives-and-who-dies.html

 

[Hijinx]

The Earth is about to blow up and there’s only room on the spaceship for eight passengers. So who gets left behind?

Seventh graders at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio were assigned the task last week of deciding who got to live and who was doomed to be blown to smithereens.

The “Whom To Leave Behind” lesson has caused quite a lot of outrage among moms and dads who believe the assignment sends the wrong message to their children.

For the assignment students were asked to choose between a list of 12 hypothetical people. Four would be left behind because “tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed.”

There was an accountant with a substance abuse problem, a militant African-American medical student, a 33-year-old Native American manager who does not speak English, the accountant’s pregnant wife, a famous novelist with a physical disability, a 21-year-old female Muslim international student, a female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault, a homosexual male professional athlete, an Asian orphaned 12-year-old boy, a 60-year-old Jewish university administrator, and a Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality.


More:...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ers-asked-to-pick-who-lives-and-who-dies.html

I think most kids would toss that list and take their family.

 

[RoseRed]

The Earth is about to blow up and there’s only room on the spaceship for eight passengers. So who gets left behind?

Seventh graders at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio were assigned the task last week of deciding who got to live and who was doomed to be blown to smithereens.

The “Whom To Leave Behind” lesson has caused quite a lot of outrage among moms and dads who believe the assignment sends the wrong message to their children.

For the assignment students were asked to choose between a list of 12 hypothetical people. Four would be left behind because “tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed.”

There was an accountant with a substance abuse problem, a militant African-American medical student, a 33-year-old Native American manager who does not speak English, the accountant’s pregnant wife, a famous novelist with a physical disability, a 21-year-old female Muslim international student, a female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault, a homosexual male professional athlete, an Asian orphaned 12-year-old boy, a 60-year-old Jewish university administrator, and a Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality.


More:...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...ers-asked-to-pick-who-lives-and-who-dies.html

Seriously? All the Native American I know speak English.

 

[Kyle]

Seriously? All the Native American I know speak English.

It was written by a leftist. They live in their own imaginary bubble.

The American Indian is only capable of saying "How, White Man!"
All the Hispanic peoples clean or mow things.
The Black people all live in a ghetto, without ID or Internet.
... And so on....

 

[RoseRed]

It was written by a leftist. They live in their own imaginary bubble.

The American Indian is only capable of saying "How, White Man!"
All the Hispanic peoples clean or mow things.
The Black people all live in a ghetto, without ID or Internet.
... And so on....

I get that. Very closed minded.

 

[vraiblonde]

Reading the assignment, I saw it as an exercise in critical thinking.

There was an accountant with a substance abuse problem, a militant African-American medical student, a 33-year-old Native American manager who does not speak English, the accountant’s pregnant wife, a famous novelist with a physical disability, a 21-year-old female Muslim international student, a female movie star who was recently the victim of a sexual assault, a homosexual male professional athlete, an Asian orphaned 12-year-old boy, a 60-year-old Jewish university administrator, and a Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality.

I'd want the medical student, but his militant attitude might be an issue.
The accountant because I'd need a numbers person - space ship and all. He'd get over his drug problem in a few days.
The athlete because he's in great physical shape.

The rest of them are either have nothing to contribute or are a liability.

But that's my interpretation of a valid assignment - the teacher, just because of the dumb stereotypes she chose - was most likely looking to get splodey about bigotry. A Native American who doesn't speak English

 

[black dog]

It was written by a leftist. They live in their own imaginary bubble.

The American Indian is only capable of saying "How, White Man!"
All the Hispanic peoples clean or mow things.
The Black people all live in a ghetto, without ID or Internet.
... And so on....

You live in Indiana?