# Texas teacher gives honor student "most likely to become a terrorist" award
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 26, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488 "2017-05-26T16:32:51Z")
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/1 "2017-05-26T16:32:51Z")
So some of the teachers at Anthony Aguirre Junior High decided to hand out mock awards to kids in the honor classes. One of those awards was to a 13 year old girl which declared her to “most likely to become a terrorist”. This on the heels of the recent terrorist attack in England.
> **[Texas Teachers Give Student 'Most Likely To Become A Terrorist' Award](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/26/530204472/texas-teachers-give-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award)**
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> The Channelview Independent School District has apologized for the "poor attempt to poke fun" after 13-year-old honors student Lizeth Villanueva received the award.
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> The Washington Post reports that two honors classes received the fake awards. Other certificates handed out include “most likely to cry for every little thing” and “most likely to become homeless,” the Post says.
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> The teacher told them they were supposed to be funny but they “might hurt [students’] feelings
The school administration posted this on their Facebook page:
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> Aguirre Administration would like to first of all apologize for the insensitive and offensive fake mock award that were given to students…As principal, I want to assure all students, parents and community members that these ward statement and ideals are NOT representative of the Aguirre Vision, Mission, and educational goals for its students.
The teacher, Stacy N. Lockett, [http://www.cvisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001642/Centricity/Domain/353/photo.JPG](http://www.cvisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001642/Centricity/Domain/353/photo.JPG), former teacher of the year, has been disciplined.
I hope they mean fired.
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### Author:  [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/2 "2017-05-26T16:40:13Z")
Someone just won the Tonedeaf Stupidity Award, that’s for sure.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/3 "2017-05-26T16:48:33Z")
How incredibly stupid and insensitive. She’s obviously the most likely to become a hotel cleaning lady, and I’m surprised these teachers overlooked that fact.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/4 "2017-05-26T16:55:06Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> The teacher, Stacy N. Lockett, [http://www.cvisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001642/Centricity/Domain/353/photo.JPG](http://www.cvisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001642/Centricity/Domain/353/photo.JPG), former teacher of the year, has been disciplined.
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> I hope they mean fired.
[Hmmm…](http://www.cvisd.org/Page/6193)
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> Home\> Teacher Websites \> Lockett, S
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/5 "2017-05-26T17:03:38Z")
Why does it always have to be Texas? There are plenty of assholes in Iowa, I’ve been there, there’s bunches of them! (grumble, grouse, bitch…)
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### Author:  [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/6 "2017-05-26T17:10:29Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> How incredibly stupid and insensitive. She’s obviously the most likely to become a hotel cleaning lady, and I’m surprised these teachers overlooked that fact.
If by “She” you meant the person who created the award, then I hope you’re correct. That would seem to be a more appropriate vocation for her than teaching.
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### Author:  [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/7 "2017-05-26T17:17:58Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> If by “She” you meant the person who created the award, then I hope you’re correct. That would seem to be a more appropriate vocation for her than teaching.
Methinks there is a warm and welcoming environment for her in the DeVos DoEd.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/8 "2017-05-26T17:49:27Z")
Personally, I think the awards are funny. The problem was in misjudging the maturity of the audience, not the jokes themselves.
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/9 "2017-05-26T17:52:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Personally, I think the awards are funny. The problem was in misjudging the maturity of the audience, not the jokes themselves.
Right - most of the audience was way too mature to be impressed by the idea that calling random innocent people terrorists is funny.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/10 "2017-05-26T17:55:27Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Why does it always have to be Texas? There are plenty of assholes in Iowa, I’ve been there, there’s bunches of them! (grumble, grouse, bitch…)
Check your news feeds for stuff coming out of Montana.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/11 "2017-05-26T17:57:18Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Personally, I think the awards are funny. The problem was in misjudging the maturity of the audience, not the jokes themselves.
I’m trying to picture the guffaws at any awards program that featured a “Most Likely To Become A Serial Killer” award, or the “Seems Like A Rapist Who Hasn’t Been Caught Yet” award, or maybe one for “Quietest Pile of Festering Hate For Humanity”… oh yeah, those are side-splitters & knee-slappers, for sure.
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### Author:  [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/12 "2017-05-26T18:00:48Z")
Female Hispanic, not exactly the prime terrorist demographic. Would’ve been fun to see the reaction if they awarded it to some white boy who collectives knives and dresses in camo.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/13 "2017-05-26T18:04:30Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> I’m trying to picture the guffaws at any awards program that featured a “Most Likely To Become A Serial Killer” award, or the “Seems Like A Rapist Who Hasn’t Been Caught Yet” award, or maybe one for “Quietest Pile of Festering Hate For Humanity”… oh yeah, those are side-splitters & knee-slappers, for sure.
Apparently some of the other “awards” were Most Likely to Become Homeless and Most Likely to Cry About Every Little Thing
> **[Texas Teachers Give Student 'Most Likely To Become A Terrorist' Award](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/26/530204472/texas-teachers-give-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award)**
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> The Channelview Independent School District has apologized for the "poor attempt to poke fun" after 13-year-old honors student Lizeth Villanueva received the award.
What an ass. Funny awards can be fun- but these just are not.
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### Author:  [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/14 "2017-05-26T18:27:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Why does it always have to be Texas? There are plenty of assholes in Iowa, I’ve been there, there’s bunches of them! (grumble, grouse, bitch…)
Hey now, Iowa teachers are incredible. Except my 5th grade teacher - over 20 years later, I would still punch her in the face, given the chance.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/15 "2017-05-26T18:46:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Personally, I think the awards are funny. The problem was in misjudging the maturity of the audience, not the jokes themselves.
I can’t think of any good reason to subject students or co-workers or anyone vulnerable to social disadvantages to this kind of joke.
Most likely to become a terrorist? Homeless? Cry about everything? How are those even conceivably a good idea?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/16 "2017-05-26T19:08:11Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Personally, I think the awards are funny. The problem was in misjudging the maturity of the audience, not the jokes themselves.
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^^^
Winner of the “tone deaf post of the day” award.
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### Author:  [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/17 "2017-05-26T19:10:56Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> ^^^
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> Winner of the “tone deaf post of the day” award.
Personally I think he’s a homeless terrorist who is quick to cry. What do you think?
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### Author:  [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/18 "2017-05-26T20:18:08Z")
I don’t think that this is automatically awful. My high school sort of did this with the yearbook prizes - the committee running the yearbook would give out silly and moderately offensive yearbook statuses, which would appear under your name in the official yearbook. They did a pretty good job of making them sort of appropriate without cutting too close to the bone. A popular but fickle student might get “Most likely to be divorced”. A politically strident student like myself could easily have gotten “Most likely to become a terrorist”, and taken it as a compliment. The challenge was to create a prize that reflected some real aspect of a student’s personality, but was obviously ridiculous or over the top.
When done in a close knit group, with understanding on both sides, this can be fun and a bonding experience. When you mistake your audience, it is hurtful and an abuse of power. The article does make it sound like the teacher didn’t care what her audience thought, which is grossly hurtful.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/19 "2017-05-26T21:15:18Z")
> [@mischievous](#):
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> I don’t think that this is automatically awful. My high school sort of did this with the yearbook prizes - the committee running the yearbook would give out silly and moderately offensive yearbook statuses, which would appear under your name in the official yearbook.
It sounds like those awards were given out by fellow students. I think it’s a little bit different when a teacher does it.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-teacher-gives-honor-student-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award/787488/20 "2017-05-26T21:28:56Z")
Elucidator wrote: “Why does it always have to be Texas? There are plenty of assholes in Iowa, I’ve been there, there’s bunches of them! (grumble, grouse, bitch…)”
Some places encourage people to conceal their assholery, others to flaunt it.
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