Brickbat: Recognized for Her Potential

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Officials with the Channelview Independent School District in Texas have apologized after teachers at one junior high school named a 13-year-old girl "most likely to become a terrorist." A school spokesman said the recognition was part of a mock awards ceremony that was supposed to be light-hearted

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Mock or not, I hope the intelligence community keeps its eye on this person.

[DJF]

All 17 of them.

[Inigo Montoya]

If the girl created the demonic-looking doll in the photo, they should have voted her “most likely to have a career in horror films.”

[Jerryskids]

I’ve seen this story several different places and none of them have listed any of the awards supporting either the argument that it was a light-hearted attempt at humor or a mean-spirited mocking of the students. Given the general spin that we’re supposed to be condemning the horrible teachers, I’m inclined to suspect it’s more a case of special snowflake faux outrage.

[Robert]

Its being awarded by faculty, publicly, makes it mean. Students conventionally make those up about each other for yearbooks, and then it’s usually funny.

[Longtobefree]

Well, it was i the ‘old days’.
But PC police have made any comment on anyone either racist, sexist, genderist, ageist, or of nothing else can be inferred, mean-spirited.
And the rest of us have not gone to the barricades to stop it.

[Robert]

Usually that’d be the sort of thing that would be funny, but awarded by fellow students, not faculty.

[Rich]

The district declined to disclose the punishment the teachers received.

Decapitation?

[Citizen X - #6]

When she hijacks a plane to Cuba in a decade or so they’re REALLY gonna look like assholes.

[Longtobefree]

It is no longer necessary to hijack the plane to get to Cuba.

[Citizen X - #6]

People who would hijack a plane don’t tend to be the types of people who think things through.

[pan fried wylie]

Yes, terrorism is totally a lighthearted subject to rib the kids about. Just like those “buy pot, fund the terrorists” commercials, such a lark.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Personally I would have loved for my ass wipe authoritarian school system to have presented me with such an award; it would have served as a bragging point for the rest of my life.

But that’s just me.

[loveconstitution1789]

You know who should have been voted “most likely to become a terrorist?”

[Animal]

Justin Bieber?

[loveconstitution1789]

Every Irish person eva?

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

George Boooooooosh!

[Duke of url]

Patti Hearst?

[Duke of url]

Clock boy?

[Duke of url]

Everybody named Mohammed?

[Duke of url]

Everybody named Mohammed?

[Jgalt1975]

The server squirrels are the real terrorists!

[KerryW]

Dennis the Menace?