(CHRISTIAN POST) – A Tennessee middle school teacher has apologized after giving her students an assignment in which they were asked to imagine the experience of committing murder.
The macabre assignment first came to light after a parent at White County Middle School in Sparta, located about 75 miles east of Nashville, brought up the matter during a school board meeting on Aug. 10.
Shelly Davis, whose son is an eighth-grade student at WCMS, shared an image of a creative writing prompt that asked students to create a story based on the following lead-in: “I never meant to kill her. I only wanted to hurt her, but now her ghost follows me everywhere.