Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Virginia school said a mock United Nations project involving students representing the views of the Taliban has been canceled following complaints. Principal Chrystal Forrester of Swanson Middle School and two teachers from the Arlington school signed an e-mail to parents that said the scrapped project was "clearly a bad choice for a debate topic," The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Advertisement "Recognizing the pain that has touched many of our families and neighbors due to the terrorist attacks on the United States and acknowledging the sensitive nature of the conflict in Afghanistan involving many of our dedicated members of the U.S. armed forces, we have eliminated this topic as part of the U.N. unit of study effective immediately," the e-mail read. Chris Wilson, whose eighth-grade daughter was among the students asked to represent the Taliban's position in an Afghanistan-themed debate, welcomed news of the subject's removal from the lesson plan. The project "seemed like … an abuse of the academic freedom that we cherish," Wilson said
