{"id":248608,"date":"2021-05-13T06:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/school-under-fire-for-lesson-claiming-george-floyd-died-of-heart-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T06:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:36:09","slug":"school-under-fire-for-lesson-claiming-george-floyd-died-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/school-under-fire-for-lesson-claiming-george-floyd-died-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#School under fire for lesson claiming George Floyd died of heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#School under fire for lesson claiming George Floyd died of heart attack<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A New York high school teacher is under fire after she told students George Floyd died of a heart attack and drug overdose.<\/p>\n

English teacher Hope Antonelli made the claim about Floyd as part of a ninth-grade English assignment on Friday, The Times Herald-Record reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The assignment asked students to \u201ccreate a bold topic\/thematic sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin during his trial over George Floyd\u2019s death last month.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cGeorge Floyd did not die because (Derek) Chauvin\u2019s knee was on his neck,\u201d said the assignment, which has since made the rounds on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe died from a heart attack and drug overdose. However, because Chauvin used excessive force and failed to render aid, he was convicted on all three counts by a jury of his peers. (Arrest was over a counterfeit $20 bill).\u201d<\/p>\n

Chauvin was\u00a0convicted last month for Floyd\u2019s death on May 25, 2020. In video footage of Floyd\u2019s arrest, Chauvin was seen pressing his knee on Floyd.<\/p>\n

The assignment went on to mention juror Brandon Mitchell, saying he denied being involved in BLM or if he protested against the officers in the case in any form.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew evidence has surfaced that he could not have been forthcoming in his statements,\u201d the assignment reads. \u201cShould the Derek Chauvin case be retried because of Brandon Mitchell. Why or Why Not?\u201d<\/p>\n

The assignment has provoked outrage of parents and sparked a review by the Saugerties Central School District.<\/p>\n

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A screengrab showing Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd\u2019s neck.<\/figcaption>
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Sakinah Irizarry told NBC News <\/a>the assignment was harmful regardless of race because of the traumatic experience it used for a lesson.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if we were not talking about this case, specifically, it takes the death of a person, I\u2019d say, from a very cold and distant point of view,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI keep coming back to empathy. It is not an empathetic point of view of a person who died, it is blaming a person who\u2019s died for their own death,\u201d she added. \u201cThat chips away at empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Superintendent Kirk Rienhart said a student told them they were uncomfortable with the assignment on Friday. It wasn\u2019t clear how many students had been given the assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe immediately got in contact with the (student\u2019s) family,\u201d Reinhardt said, according to the Herald-Record. \u201cOur goal as a school community is to see that all our students feel they are seen, heard, respected and valued.\u201d<\/p>\n

The superintendent wouldn\u2019t say if the teacher was facing discipline.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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