How To Murder

I read in the New Zealand Herald that kiwis are a heathy and active lot but don't feel safe on city streets at night. Many reasons were given for feeling scared which included dangerous people, media reporting on crime, alcohol and drug problems and badly-lit streets. One reason that they left out could be because it is the latest to emerge.

Howick College has given it's students a special assignment to stimulate their thinking. How to carry out a perfect murder and dispose of the victim's body. Only one parent complained about this gross assignment and insisted the college give an apology. The principal, Bill Dimery, said the aim of the assignment was to get students reading the Roald Dahl book Lamb to the Slaughter, in which a woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, which she then serves to the investigating police officers for dinner.

He then acknowledged that, setting such an assignment was probably poor judgment.
"The intention was to get kids thinking about people and their actions and their motivations and there was an assignment which was couched in terms of plotting your own murder." The teacher later apologised to the parents.

What about the rest of the kids who completed their assignments? What would be their conversation during break? The one who got an 'A' would be in cloud 9 and pleased with himself that he can get away with murder. What would happen if his classmates think that his plan would not actually work and dare him to prove it. Things like this always happen in school compounds. I heard someone's child jumped off their apartment after watching Superman! So what's to stop these kids from carrying out the 'perfect' murder? Who will be the unfortunate victim?

Schools must be more careful on what they put inside impressive minds of the young. Do they really need to learn how to kill to stimulate their minds? This kind of teaching method is carrying it a bit too far. I am glad my sons are not in that school.