Saturday, December 31, 2005
Farris Hassan Grounded For Doing His Homework Properly.
Sixteen year old Farris Hassan's journalism assignment for school was to write about an international issue of significance from the viewpoint of people living through it, so he took himself off to Baghdad for Christmas.
After overcoming several potentially lethal challenges he made it there, and was eventually picked up by the American military, who flew him home to Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
He could be expelled from school, and his mother says she may never let him out on his own again.
I hope it doesn't come to that. However foolish it might have been to do what he did, surely Farris has a great future ahead of him as a journalist with an attitude like his.
If he was my son I couldn't help but be extremely proud of him.
After overcoming several potentially lethal challenges he made it there, and was eventually picked up by the American military, who flew him home to Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
He could be expelled from school, and his mother says she may never let him out on his own again.
I hope it doesn't come to that. However foolish it might have been to do what he did, surely Farris has a great future ahead of him as a journalist with an attitude like his.
If he was my son I couldn't help but be extremely proud of him.
© Colcam 2005-2007
