Really Cool Teacher Assigns Students To Write An Essay On How They Would Kill Her
WaPo – Put this in the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category. A Montgomery County, Md., middle school teacher assigned her English students in four separate classes a story in which they had to describe how they would kill her — and the description had to include at least three gerunds, three infinitives and three participles.
The Kingsview Middle School teacher, Patricia Lorenzen, sent an apology late last year to parents and guardians of students in four of her English classes, saying that she thought the assignment would “be an engaging way to review grammar concepts,” but later, after complaints by parents, she realized that it was inappropriate. By then, however, some of the students had actually completed the assignment, though others did not. No student was penalized for failing to complete the assignment.
Okay let’s real talk this for a quick second. At some point or another, we’ve all have some pretty fucked up thoughts race through our heads. Now I’d never say that I would act upon any of the shit that goes on in my mind, but I’d be a bold faced liar if I said I never once thought about what it would be like to kill another human. That’s just how people are. The crazy psychopaths in the world are the ones who have these thoughts and then think to themselves that maybe that’s actually not such a bad idea. But for the most of us, we quickly become disgusted with ourselves for even having the thought in the first place and immediately try to think of anything else.
So here’s this teacher, Patricia Lorenzen. She understands how people work. She gets that at one point throughout the school year, her students are going to fantasize about murdering her. So instead of allowing them to feel weird about having such normal thoughts, she fosters these ideas and turns it into an assignment. No harm, no foul. Everyone probably ended up getting at least a B, nobody actually murdered her, and chances are that she’s some freak who gets off on reading that type of shit. If you’re keeping track at home, that makes this assignment a win-win-win. But of course, in today’s happy-go-lucky society, this type of shit doesn’t fly. For shame.
P.S. – Just Googled this bitch and I think I take back everything I said. She’s a certified kook.