Irony: school teaches students about living under dictatorship

[KBCraig]

Oh, the supreme irony!

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100224/ARTICLE/2241029

OSPREY - Stephany Fournier, an 11th-grader at Pine View School, did not want to punish her fellow classmates, but it had to be done. They defied the law.

"I'm normally a nice person, but I have to be really firm with these people," Stephany said. "They must come in, sit down and write this line on paper, front and back."

The line: "I will serve the glorious East German state better."

The students copied it repeatedly after watching a propaganda film depicting the evils of Western culture.

[Pat McCotter]

Did these few understand the irony?

""We've had quite a few people that have been belligerent and just don't agree at all with the simulation." Marine said some students protested the project, including setting up Facebook pages to rally the opposition. But Marine said the protests actually simulated similar efforts during the real German struggle and made the entire exercise more authentic."