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To: freeus who wrote (5524)	10/4/2000 1:09:47 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

L..the NRA has way too much clout.. I want to see an end to PAC's..have a close friend who works in the ER in Chi....ease of gun use is off the charts...and these are not self defense shootings T

To: freeus who wrote (5524)	10/4/2000 2:04:46 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Poe Boy makes bad........... Teacher Fired Over Project to Plan Assassination COVINA, Calif. (Reuters) - A high school English teacher has been fired after officials discovered he gave his students an assignment to plan an assassination of someone they would like to kill, a newspaper reported. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune said Tuesday the English teacher in this suburb east of Los Angeles allegedly gave his students an assignment to chose someone to kill, give the reasons why and detail how they could keep it secret. The project was in connection with a class reading of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story ``The Pit and the Pendulum'' which tells of a man who faces death by either falling into an abyss or being cut to shreds by a swinging pendulum. Louis Pappas, the assistant superintendent for the Covina Valley Unified School District declined to comment on specifics of the case but said that the district had fired a teacher Monday due to an inappropriate class project. ``On Monday we did receive a complaint of a writing assignment. The assignment was not authorized. Once the administration was made aware of the assignment, it directed it be rescinded. The teacher in question is no longer employed by the district,'' Pappas said. The district is working to replace the teacher in question, Pappas said. Students told the newspaper that ``a whole bunch of kids went to complain'' about the assignments because it did not seem relevant to the story and the teacher had to give an alternative assignment to those students who did not want to plan an assassination. The teacher could not be reached for comment, the paper said.