12/6/2012, 9:38 pm
Long Beach Students Assigned To Depict White House, Obama Under Water
December 5, 2012 11:05 PM
The comments on this story are excellent, too. The news report says they couldn't show the pictures. I am willing to bet some people here can come up with some dandies.
December 5, 2012 11:05 PM
LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A group of parents at Rancho Dominguez Prep School in Long Beach are asking for a long-term substitute teacher to be removed from the classroom after he told students to create images of the White House under water.
Junior Carnal Washington said his Digital Imaging instructor told him it wasn't enough to just submerge the White House, but somebody had to drown in their creations.
“My (project) was the president being saved instead of drowning him… so I drowned his wife and the dog,” he said. “I felt bad. It didn't feel right drowning the president.”
Washington and a classmate said the student who got the most praise from the teacher took the Photoshop assignment a step further.
“The highest grade in the class was a girl who had Obama swimming toward a bucket of chicken instead of his family. I thought that was sad, but when (the teacher) saw it, he started laughing,” Washington said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District said the assignment was related to Hurricane Sandy, but students and parents said it just made them uncomfortable.
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The comments on this story are excellent, too. The news report says they couldn't show the pictures. I am willing to bet some people here can come up with some dandies.