To feel sorry for this teacher

[limestrawberry]

Teacher sets homework to write a suicide note, based on Macbeth.

Terribly, terribly ill judged and misguided. But surely an apology is enough rather than this making the national press.

Although this is slightly different, it is appropriate to this thread, I think.
Although in THIS case I think that the teacher was definitely in the wrong for not making the class aware that it was an exercise.
www.smh.com.au/national/education/schools-controversial-stolen-generations-lesson-draws-parents-ire-20170628-gx0lml.html

It's interesting but entirely different : it's deliberately manipulative (I saw a similar assembly on racism once) , the parents should have ben informed, and , crucially, the children are a good six or seven years younger!

I wouldn't be surprised, however, if this was quite a common PSHE activity in Australia.

Rereading it the Australian children are older than I thought , so four or five years younger; still quite a crucial gap.

I'm a little sceptical about the article . It has the obligatory Fail sad face and I think your average 10 year old is a bit more savvy than this article suggests. However, the intention was to scare the children, it seems! The English teacher in our scenario had no such intention.

No, if you read carefully, only 1 class out of the 3 Y4 classes was NOT told it was an exercise, the other 2 classes were. So the intention was not to scare them - it was a failure of the one teacher to explain the exercise. Y4 children are between 8 and 10, depending on when they started school and when their birthday is.

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