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| Controversial Assignment Leads To Teacher's Resignation | |
| 2006-11-20 | |
SMITHFIELD, N.C. -- A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate. Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle.
As they read on, students found the puzzle contained a paragraph that contained the following phrases: "Sharon killed a lot of innocent people," a possible reference to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Palestine is not a terrorist group." "Allah help destroy this body of evil making humanity miserable." "It was kind of scary at first to think about, you know, your own teacher in your own school that is teaching you," Herrera said. School administrators said they confronted Chahhou about an unidentified concern Wednesday and he resigned. "The situation surrounding the resignation has prompted us to call the proper authorities," said Crystal Roberts, the spokeswoman for Johnston County Schools. The Johnston County Sheriff's Office reviewed the complaint, but investigators said they don't see any reason to file criminal charges or contact other agencies. Chahhou, who also teaches Arabic at a religious school affiliated with the Islamic Association of Cary, told WRAL in a telephone interview that students got the wrong message from the assignment. "When I made the assignment, I was upset and angry about a story I recently saw on the news. If any message appears, it is more of a message to myself, not to my students. I never meant to hurt or upset any students or parents," he said. | |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #8 SSDD |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-20 18:46 |
| #7 True, JFM, although I'd imagine it was all in the name(s) of "Diversity" and "Multi-culti". But, that's an important point. Who in the world would hire a muzzie to teach Spanish? It's not as if the U.S. has a shortage of spanish speaking folks who could teach it, especially in N.C. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-11-20 14:38 |
| #6 Now I would be very interested on the guy whi hired him: unlees he was a Mexican who converted to Islam I find very oddd that simeone would even consider a Muslim applying for teaching Spanish. Specailly when you have all kinds opf South Americans at hand (even if their Spanish is say a little differnet of classic Spanish. So who hired him has to answer a couple questions. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-11-20 13:10 |
| #5 I agree BA, I'd investigate the hell out of this bitch. Why is this bastard teaching in a public high school if he's affiliated with an Islamic madrassa ? We'd better start getting real serious. It's unbelieveable what's happening right under our noses while we play stupid. |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-11-20 11:58 |
| #4 Going deeper, I wonder if we should really investigate this guy. With all the speculation of al Qaeda and other terrorists sneaking in, posing as illegal Mexican immigrants from Central America, mewonders if this guy's tied up with a group like that. Probably not, but a lil' snoooping couldn't hurt. When muzzies pose as Mexicans (including learning to speak Spanish, which I assume this goon does, as he was teaching it), and we STILL don't lock down our southern border, we're just askin' to get hit again. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-11-20 11:10 |
| #3 I wonder if the folks around Cary might want to put a little pressure on that religious school right about now. NASCAR season is wrapped up, so they should have a little extra time one their hands Sunday afternoons. |
| Posted by: Uniper Sperens4324 2006-11-20 10:44 |
| #2 Destroy America seems pretty clear to me. --If any message appears, it is more of a message to myself, not to my students.---- |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-11-20 10:13 |
| #1 yeah right.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-20 08:30 |