Parents of some elementary school students are furious over a class assignment. They said children were asked to draw images depicting the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Parents said the teacher gave specific instructions to fourth-graders at Hughey Elementary in central El Paso.

"'We had to draw the boom cloud, the planes hitting, and people jumping out of the windows,'" said Ivie Gremillion.

Those are the directions Gremillion said her daughter was given on Monday.

The drawing includes people jumping out of burning buildings yelling, "Help," and "I love you," and another student's drawing has one stick figure saying "One way ticket to heaven."

"That's something that kids should get in trouble for drawing. That's people being murdered, committing suicide," said Gremillion.

Gremillion said the teacher's lesson didn't stop there.

"'The Afghans did this because they hate all of us and want to kill all of us,'" Gremillion claims the teacher told her daughter.

In her daughter's picture, the pilot of the plane appears to be laughing. Gremillion said there is nothing funny about 9/11 or the drawings.

She said her husband, who joined the Army because of those attacks, will be deployed to Afghanistan by the end of this year.

"She's like, 'My dad's going to die,'" Gremillion quoted her daughter as saying.

She said her daughter isn't the only one emotionally affected by the assignment. She said so was her neighbor's son, who drew another similar picture.

"He was under the impression this happens every 9/11, and he was scared to leave his house and go to school yesterday," she said.

Gremillion stresses the Sept. 11 attacks are part of history and wants her daughter to know the events of the day.

"I would like a counselor to go in there and re-explain all this to that class," she said.

However, not the gruesome details, at least not for now.

"She doesn't need to know that, not at her age," said Gremillion.

She would like to see the teacher reprimanded, but more importantly wants to make sure the students of the class don't grow up with any bias against Afghans.

"The way she worded [it] is just teaching racism and hate for an entire nation, and that's not OK," said Gremillion.

KFOX 14 reached out to the teacher to get her side. El Paso Independent School District officials said they spoke to the teacher, who said the terrorist attacks were part of class discussion, and students were asked to draw something they learned in the discussion.

They said some students had drawings of police officers and firefighters who were labeled  heroes."

However, less than an hour after that conversation officials issued the following statement:

EPISD is very concerned about the images that were drawn in response to a lesson on the events of September 11. District and campus administrators are investigating the specific assignment and are interviewing the personnel involved.  We regret the insensitivity that this action may have caused and wish to assure our community that we will act swiftly in this matter and will take any and all appropriate action.  We extend our sincere apologies.