project. now, allegedly, the teacher instructor said do not tell anyone, told the students, but the students went back to their home room school teacher and they told her, and that is how this allegedly got out. now, we want to show you, we have some statements, first of all, from the d.c. schools, they have told cnn this was not an approved lesson plan, and we sincerely apologize to our students and families who were subjected to this incident. cnn also received a letter that was sent to the parents by the schools. here s part of that letter, it says students should never be tasked with acting out any atrocity especially genocide and war. additionally there were allegations of a staff member using hate speech during the lesson, which is unacceptable and not tolerated at our school. john, the students are being seen by mental health counselors at this point, and a school official tells cnn that that teacher, she s on leave.