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A huge mistake? Florida psychology teacher fired after asking high school students to write their OBITUARIES before active shooting practice — but insists he did nothing wrong
Jeffrey Kane taught psychology at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando
Have the students write their obituaries to reflect on the mass shooting
After angry students sought counselors, he was fired
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A Florida high school psychology teacher has been fired after giving his students an assignment where they write their own obituaries before the school’s active shooting practice.
Jeffrey Kane taught at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando until this week, when his lesson apparently went too far.
He asked the students, “If they died 24 hours from now, what would they do differently than they did yesterday?”
Kane wanted to use the exercise to teach his students to be safe and to think about the important things in life.
The students were asked to write a research paper on how they perceived the training and wanted them to answer multiple questions.
Jeffrey Kane taught psychology at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando until this week, when his lesson went too far.
He asked the students, “If they died 24 hours from now, what would they do differently than they did yesterday?”
Why does the US have so many mass shootings? What kind of positive actions can we take to reduce the number of mass shootings? and “How has the mass shooting epidemic affected you as a person in your future plans?”
A student in his first semester apparently got upset and asked to speak to a counselor and was soon expelled after being lectured to by a school official.
The teacher was then offered the opportunity to resign from his job without breaching his contract.
I said: I did nothing wrong. I said: if you do, tell me what it is. They said, “We can’t do that.” I said, “In that case, since I don’t know what I did wrong, you can go ahead and terminate me for no reason.”
Then they did on Tuesday, shocking Kane, who made several Facebook posts protesting the decision.
I’m a little confused by this. Have our schools focused more on censorship and entitlement than on preparing these “young people” for “the world we live in”? ”
He added that the lesson was for tenth through twelfth graders, and second graders up to the upper grades in the public school.
Kane also noted that he put a disclaimer at the end of the mission saying that it “in no way offends you”.
Apparently a student in his first class got upset and asked to speak to a counselor and Ken was soon fired after a school official gave him a lecture
Dr. Phillips High School expelled Ken on Tuesday, shocking him. He posted several posts on Facebook protesting the decision
Kane also noted that he put a disclaimer at the end of the mission saying that it “in no way offends you”.
The psychology teacher tried to explain himself and the task but it wasn’t enough.
“I was shocked,” Kane told Fox 35. I was talking to the students about the world they live in. Gun Safety, Active Shooters.
A school spokesperson told L.L.C Miami Herald Kane was a “probationary employee” who had been terminated, but did not elaborate on his dismissal.
Kane has promised to appeal to end his sentence.