Teacher ’suspended over 9/11 creative writing task’
November 23, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
Murray Wardrop
Telegraph
November 23, 2009
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
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.