Parents outraged after NYC school has teens write first-person suicide notes for homework
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Young teens at a pricey Upper West Side private school were asked to write first-person suicide notes — a macabre assignment that some of their parents have blasted as “inappropriate.”
The English-class homework at York Prep required students as young as 14 to write goodbye missives from the perspective of a character who offs herself in “The Secret Life of Bees,” a best-selling book and film.
The task included justifying why they had committed suicide, a grim process that rattled a few nerves.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“We were pretty stunned at the scope of the assignment,” said a father of a ninth-grade student at the school.
"We thought this was such an outrageous assignment for a 14-year-old to get,” he added. “We pay a lot of money to send our kids to the school.”