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Alabama Teacher Suspended After Students Reenact Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin Shootings
By Crimesider Staff / AP, Aug. 22, 2014, Cbsnews.com
SELMA, Ala. - An Alabama teacher was suspended without pay after being accused of having sixth-grade students re-enact the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
The Selma Times-Journal quoted Dallas County School Superintendent Don Willingham as saying the social studies teacher used poor judgment during a lesson on current events.
School officials haven't identified the teacher, who works at Brantley Elementary School.
Administrators were alerted to the Ferguson re-enactment this week after the mother of a student in the class posted a complaint on Facebook. The Missouri city has been a hotbed of protests since a police officer fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Willingham said his investigation showed the teacher told students to research and re-enact a current event of their choosing. The students picked the killings of Brown and Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012, he said.
Students used paper guns and bullets, and students portraying victims fell on pillows, he said.
Willingham said the teacher "made a mistake" in judgment by having students re-enact the shootings.
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SELMA, Ala. - An Alabama teacher was suspended without pay after being accused of having sixth-grade students re-enact the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
The Selma Times-Journal quoted Dallas County School Superintendent Don Willingham as saying the social studies teacher used poor judgment during a lesson on current events.
School officials haven't identified the teacher, who works at Brantley Elementary School.
Administrators were alerted to the Ferguson re-enactment this week after the mother of a student in the class posted a complaint on Facebook. The Missouri city has been a hotbed of protests since a police officer fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Willingham said his investigation showed the teacher told students to research and re-enact a current event of their choosing. The students picked the killings of Brown and Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012, he said.
Students used paper guns and bullets, and students portraying victims fell on pillows, he said.
Willingham said the teacher "made a mistake" in judgment by having students re-enact the shootings.
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