Slip of the Tongue

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job.

Michael Maxwell, who teaches industrial technology at Central High School, said his request that students in his beginning drafting class describe how they would carry out a murder was merely a writing prompt. It was not clear why he asked the drafting class to write fiction.

This is like the story several years ago about a teacher who asked his students to write an essay about what historical figure they would kill and why. Both these teachers simply made a mistake in how they phrased their question. What they should have asked is, who do you wish had been aborted and why? That would have made the question politically correct. I mean, who would have objected to a question about a form of murder that has become a woman's right?