Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Teacher in France Sacked Over Grisly Assignment; Had Students Write Why They'd Commit Suicide

A teacher in western France was suspended yesterday (December 10, 2012), after he asked a class of 13- and 14-year-olds to view themselves committing suicide as a written school assignment, according to the France 24 website.

The exercise -- assigned at the Antoine Delafont school in Charente -- read as follows:

"You've just turned 18. You've decided to end your life. Your decision is definitive. In a final surge, you decide to put in words the reason behind your decision. In the style of a self-portrait, you describe the disgust you have for yourself. Your text will retrace certain events in your life at the origin of these feelings."

Several angry parents complained to school officials about the teacher's assignment, and the teacher was suspended.

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