Friday, January 16, 2015

MCPS Teacher assigned students to write about how they would kill her

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/01/15/teacher-assigned-students-to-write-about-how-they-would-kill-her/

7 comments:

  1. Was this a creative writing class?

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    1. Does that matter? A student caught with a writing of this type in her/his possession could easily be arrested.
      Should all of the students that have been arrested for this type of writing just plead "creative writing?'

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  2. There is also "fictional writing."

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    1. And no matter what you try to call it, it won't keep a student from being arrested for writing it.

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    2. The real question is: How in tarnation she got her teaching certificate!

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  3. I support creative assignments to engage students but this one showed a lack of judgment on the part of the teacher. What about updating a story of Edgar Allan Poe? Would that be objectionable? I can think of a lot of ideas that might be marginal and would trigger parent complaints. It's a matter of good sense and intuition on the part of the teacher... and how the assignment is presented.

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  4. This must have just been a "creative writing" assignment. Silly police.

    http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/01/group-of-fourth-grade-girls-planned-to-kill-their-teacher-with-hand-sanitizer-police-say-110471.html

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