Each group was given a story about a lonely young high school student who punches a popular jock in the face for reasons only known to the lonely young man. It was an allegory for the events of 9/11. After reading it, the students were asked to have a conversation about what the jock (and the United States) should do next. This was not a graded assignment. The point was to get the students talking to each other about foreign policy through the medium of the high school drama they were more accustomed to.
Education really is just propaganda. Maybe screen schooling isn't so bad.
