Teacher ’suspended over 9/11 creative writing task’
Murray Wardrop
Telegraph
November 23, 2009
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Kathy Young, 29, is said to have left children traumatised after also asking them to imagine that they had been killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Parents complained to Oxclose Village Primary School in Washington, Tyne and Wear, after their children reportedly came home in tears following the creative writing lesson.
Mrs Young, who has a nine-year-old daughter, devised the task as children observed the anniversary of the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks in which 2,995 people died, it is claimed.
“How can she set young children this kind of essay? Many of them have been left traumatised by her ridiculous lesson,” one parent told a Sunday newspaper.
November 23, 2009