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Outrage over 4th graders' 9/11 assignment
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Texas teacher allegedly asks elementary students to draw images of terrorist attack
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- Date Sep 13, 2012
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Tell me the teacher gave specific instructions to fourth graders actually elementary.
We had a Joba -- -- in the plane heading.
And we had to -- people jumping out of the windows.
Those directions -- -- Leon says her daughter was given on Monday.
This is -- people jumping out of burning buildings yelling help and bloodier and another student's trying says this is my ticket to heaven.
Got up and make kids think that had Robert -- crawling I think that's people being martyred people committing suicide could really -- says the teacher's lesson didn't stop.
There.
Afghans that that's because they hate all of us and they want to kill all of us.
In her daughter's picture the pilot of the plane appears to be laughing.
The agreement Leon says there is nothing funny about 9/11 or these drawings she says her husband who joined the army because of those attacks.
Will be deployed to Afghanistan by the end of this year and complained about back.
She says her daughter isn't the only one emotionally affected by the assignment so -- her neighbor's son who drew this picture.
He was done under the impression that that's happened every -- allotment.
And it and he was scared to leave his house and go to school yesterday.
Really -- stresses the September 11 attacks is part of history -- want her daughter to know the events of the day.
-- by my count quite -- -- -- there and re explain all this about crops.
But not the gruesome teach else at least not for now he doesn't know that.
Not a heart rate.
Want to make sure the students of the -- don't love with any bias towards -- afghanis the race he bargain if you're teaching racism and hate.
Our entire nation and that's not okay.
I really stuck to the teacher to get her side which led to conflicting stories from officials looking up paso independent school district.
First they told me the assignment wasn't specific and some students even had drawings of firefighters and police officers.
A short time later I received a statement from the district that says they are concerned with the drawings and are now looking into that specific assignment and will take appropriate action.
But according in the studio much in about thirty.