We’ve all heard of memorizing the Gettysburg Address or the Preamble to the Constitution, running through the state capitals or even being fed the gilded myth of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree or Christopher Columbus “discovering” America.

But analyzing the words of an ISIS recruiter and former lead terrorist and present-day shark chum Osama bin Laden?

Wait, what?

According to local news media out of Houston, Texas, a mother of a ninth grade student at a “Sugar Land” area high school is beyond furious after discovering that her child was instructed — as a homework assignment — to complete the outrageous aforementioned task: interpret what a couple of dastardly demented extremists once communicated.

It was given to the geography class not long after the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris.

Here’s more:

ABC-13 obtained a copy of the assignment. It instructs students to analyze the point of view of several passages and identify the subject, occasion, audience, purpose and speaker (S.O.A.P).

The first example is from a blog entry from an ISIS recruiters tumbler site. The subject deals with different kinds of women needed to join ISIS, professionals, police and wives. The “audience” is “woman anywhere who might want to join ISIS”.

The second article included a quote from Osama Bin Laden. The quote is in response to the bombing and killing of 17 sailors on the USS Cole. Students were instructed to analyze Osama’s the following quote:

“The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased and your heart would have been filled with joy.”

The mother’s name is Theresa Bosley. She’s a formally-trained educator to boot. Here’s her take:

“I’m all about education. I have a juris in education. Yes. We should teach about ISIS. But let’s teach the facts. Let’s teach who they are and what happened. Let’s teach about Paris in Lebanon. Let’s teach about the 21 Christians that were beheaded,” said Bosley. “Let’s teach about the school kids that were kidnapped, 200 of them, from their school. Where are they now?”

UPDATE: The high school (HISD) released this statement concerning the story:

“The intent of the assignment was to teach students critical and analytical thinking skills using current events. The district will review the assignment and follow up with the campus, if needed.”