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It was part of a 9th grade assignment. Published 16 hours ago Written by Paul Meara George Floyd died of a heart attack and drug overdose. The Hope Antonelli had her students “create a bold topic/thematic sentence” for an assignment for a ninth-grade class last Friday (May 7). It then claimed the 46-year-old told her students, as an example, that “did not die because (Derek) 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),” the assignment relayed. ....
‘New evidence has surfaced that he could not have been forthcoming in his statements,’ the assignment reads. ‘Should the Derek Chauvin case be retried because of Brandon Mitchell. Why or Why Not?’ The assignment has provoked outrage of parents and sparked a review by the Saugerties Central School District. Sakinah Irizarry who has fifth- and seventh-grade students in the district, told NBC News the assignment was harmful regardless of race because of the traumatic experience it used for a lesson. ‘Even if we were not talking about this case, specifically, it takes the death of a person, I’d say, from a very cold and distant point of view,’ she said. ....
Hoover Institution fellow Lahnee Chen and Former NFL player Jack Brewer analyze the role education plays in civil unrest 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. ....
4 Read / Add Comments 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. ....