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- Suicide Note Writing Assignment Angers Parents
A suicide note writing assignment has left parents angry and stunned. The assignment was given as homework at an English class at York Preparatory School, located in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Parents reacted by deeming the homework as inappropriate, especially since the class contained students as young as 14. The suicide note writing assignment [...] Suicide Note Writing Assignment ...
June 12, 2013 - The Inquisitr - NYC Private School Teacher’s Morbid Assignment: Write a Suicide Note
Students as young as 14 at New York City’s York Prep on the Upper West Side were given a strange writing assignment: compose a first-person suicide note. Parents were reportedly horrified to learn that the new English teacher, Jessica Barrish, gave students this assignment. Kids were told to write from the perspective of May Boatwright, a character who commits suicide in Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 ...
June 12, 2013 - Opposing Views