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Teacher suspended for telling students to write suicide notes

Source : IANS
Last Updated: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 00:13 hrs

London: A teacher in France has been suspended after asking a class of teenagers to write suicide notes.

The man, who has not been named, is a French teacher at the Antoine-Delafont school in Montmoreau-Saint-Cybard, near Angouleme, France, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

He told the 13- to 14-year-olds to imagine what they would say to themselves if they were about to end their lives out of "disgust" for their lives.

The assignment, set in October, read: "You've just turned 18. You've decided to end your life. Your decision is definitive.

"In a final surge you decide to put in words the reason behind your decision. In the style of a self-portrait, you describe the disgust you have for yourself. Your text will retrace certain events in your life at the origin of these feelings."

Jean-Marie Renault, the school head, confirmed that the teacher had now been "officially notified" of his suspension, following complaints from parents, the Mail added.



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