Teacher Apologizes For Asking Students To Write About Who They Would Kill

[The Straight Story]

Teacher Apologizes For Asking Students To Write About Who They Would Kill

POSTED: 7:30 am EDT May 15, 2006
UPDATED: 7:34 am EDT May 15, 2006

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A Missouri high school teacher apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it.

Michael Maxwell said it was a horrible mistake he regrets, according to an Associated Press report.

Maxwell said the request to describe how students would carry out a murder was merely a writing exercise. Maxwell teaches a beginning drafting class and it was not clear why he asked the class to write fiction.

School officials in St. Joseph said the teacher will likely keep his job.

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