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Last week, Antonelli asked students to respond to a prompt in a Regents exam format, using phrases like it is evident, it is clear, and it is obvious. Students needed to justify their claim with a bold topic and thematic sentence to the following prompt: George Floyd did not die because Chauvin s knee was on his neck. He 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.)
Antonelli went on to discuss a specific juror, Brandon Mitchell, and the validity of his assertions that he had not participated in Black rights protests and could be an unbiased juror.
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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.
English teacher Hope Antonelli made the claim about Floyd as part of a ninth-grade English assignment on Friday, The Times Herald-Record reported.
The assignment asked students to create a bold topic/thematic sentence. George Floyd did not die because (Derek) Chauvin’s knee was on his neck, said the assignment, which has since made the rounds on social media.
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Calls for a Hudson Valley teacher to either be fired or resign are growing over what many are calling a racist assignment.
The controversy began last week in Ulster County when Saugerties High School English teacher Hope Antonelli, gave her ninth-grade English class a writing assignment stating that “George Floyd did not die because (Derek) Chauvin’s knee was on his neck. He died from a heart attack and drug overdose.”
Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday, April 20 for killing Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, as Floyd pleaded that he could not breathe.
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. â The Saugerties Central School District has decided to stay with remote learning through the first week of January.
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The district had already been in remote mode through the end of the month, but announced on Friday, Dec. 18, it would extend that through the week of Jan. 4-8.
- Advertisement - Due to the consistent number of positive cases in our region and predictions for further increases as we move to the holiday season, the Saugerties Central School District will continue with our remote learning model, a letter to parents and guardians from Superintendent Kirk Reinhardt said. We anticipate returning to our hybrid model on Monday, January 11, 2021. We will continue to closely monitor our region and local cases.