Fourth grade students in Hughey Elementary School in El Paso, Texas were assigned to draw pictures of the September 11 attacks. The students were told to “draw the boom clouds, the planes hitting the towers, and people jumping out of windows,” by their teacher who also told the students that “the Afghans did this because they hate all of us and want to kill all of us.” One student was so scared by the assignment that he believed the tragedy reoccurred every year and refused to leave his house to go to school on 9/11. I fully understand that teaching children about 9/11 is important, but this is so extreme and the children are so young to be taught such violence. It’s hard enough to explain death to a child, I can’t imagine how these parents had to explain someone trying to deliberately hurt thousands of people and for the teacher to target a certain group of people just teaches the youth hatred. Read more below. Julie A.