French Teacher could be suspended because...
 

he asked his students to write their own suicide notes. Nifty, huh?

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A French secondary teacher asked his pupils to write a teenaged suicide note. His students who were aged 13 and 14 told them to think of a good reasons for wanting to kill themselves and describe their self-disgust. Naturally as the parents of his student got wind of this, they contacted the French Education Department.

The teacher faces suspension for the essay. He taught at the Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard secondary school in the Charente region of western France.

im all for free speech and open learning etc etc
but sometimes people take too many liberties with your kids.

That sounds like a pretty stupid assignment.

you know, it's France...
And it's "education nationale" where it's easy to make "la greve" (the strike)

what a dumb ass maybe he should be evaluated as a suicide case

no jokes yet about french people that rather surrender than fight?

We surrender!

in fact it's not so easy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_...s_and_Waterloo

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It's pretty stupid and reprehensible as the suicide rate in the 13/15 years range is high.

Why would he think this would be a good idea?

Maybe he wanted to make them think about it so he could teach them how badly suicide affects everyone around the person that does it and put them off ever considering it.

The thought of suicide can be comforting, why all the outrage? ...

Thought crime alert.

If you use your job to make a personal statement, don't be surprised if someone takes it away from you.

How cruel. On earth, we are really living in systems that remove people. Some of these systems release criminals and exclude retards.

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Sounds like a sick teacher who wanted to read about the issues his students faced.

or... she was trying to see which kids were potential threats and wanted to help them out :upsidedow

True! :thumbsup

go-ahead

Too daring, not a good idea.

I think it's too risky at that age. That's college-level. 13-year-olds go crazy over a zit, they most likely aren't well-equipped enough to handle thoughts of suicide and be able to separate those thoughts from reality. Those are pretty powerful thoughts. Many of those kids are already fantasizing about suicide. Something like this could push them over.