“Students would plan theoretical terrorist act – teachers are suspended,” translated from “Elever skulle planera teoretiskt terrordåd – lärare stängs av,” by Beri Zangana, Aftonbladet, December 13, 2023 (thanks to Remix News):

Students at a high school in Jönköping were given the task of planning a fictitious act of terrorism.

Now the teacher is suspended and an investigation has been launched.

“It is extremely inconsiderate,” says the municipality’s head of education Henrik Natt och Dag.

The teacher tells P4 Jönköping that he denies the accusations.

The high school students in Jönköping were given the task on Friday during an English lesson. It was about theoretically planning a terrorist act. Something that aroused strong reactions from both employees and students at the school.

“It was a teacher who had handed out a task where the students would theoretically describe a terrorist attack. That’s how a number of students perceived it,” says Henrik Natt och Dag, head of education in Jönköping municipality.

“Inappropriate task”

Aftonbladet has seen the task that shows a task that was used in a previous stencil.

From the education administration’s side, they take what happened seriously and describe it as an “inappropriate” task.

“It is extremely reckless with such a task in these times with an elevated terrorist threat level,” says Henrik Natt och Dag.

“They felt uncomfortable with the task, and that’s how it was noticed.”

Henrik Natt och Dag has seen the task himself.

“It consisted of them making a political statement by planning a terrorist attack. And then there were details about how the task would be done.”

The teacher has now been suspended without pay indefinitely and the school has launched an investigation. He completely denies the allegations.

To P4 Jönköping, the teacher has given his explanation for what happened. According to him, the task was the opposite and was about writing about how inappropriate the task was. It had previously been used as school supplies in Australia several years ago.

According to the teacher, it was about the students writing a letter of protest against such an assignment.

The teacher himself tells P4 that it is something he has repeated several times.

The teacher is also strongly critical of the fact that the school management did not contact him before he was suspended.

The incident was reported to the police, but the case was closed immediately, writes Jönköpings-Posten.

Aftonbladet has searched for the teacher without success.