A professor at a California junior college is in hot water for giving his students a peculiar assignment. According to the SF Chronicle, the kids were told “to compose an e-mail to an elected official that included the words ’kill the president, kill the president,’”

A school Vice President said it was an “experiential exercise that would instill a sense of fear so they would have a better sense of why more people don’t participate in the political process.”

You can’t make this stuff up, folks.