Story highlights Intern teacher says she intended to teach how extremists use propaganda to spread untruths

Parents react negatively and the assignment is withdrawn

(CNN) When parents got word their children were making terrorist propaganda posters in class, they demanded answers.

A teaching intern at Salem Junior High in Salem, Utah, gave what she intended to be an innocent assignment to her students: Create a terrorist propaganda poster to illustrate how terror organizations function.

The assignment didn't sit well with some parents.

Mother Annie Langston told CNN affiliate KSTU she immediately contacted Principal Robert Fleming.

"I feel that a different type of assignment or report could have been chosen," Langston said.

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