NYC Teacher Assigns Suicide Notes for Homework
By Rick Pearcey • June 13, 2013, 09:34 AM
Margaret Hartmann reports at NYMagazine:
The latest school assignment infuriating New York parents comes from Jessica Barrish, a new English teacher at York Prep, who had students as young as 14 write suicide notes from the perspective of a character in The Secret Life of Bees last month.
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