A teacher has been arrested after giving a Virginia middle school class an assignment to write about killing a student, according to court records.
The incident occurred in January 2022 in an English class at Crestwood Middle School in Chesapeake, but Scripps News Norfolk’s investigative team recently learned about the arrest after a Freedom of Information Request to the Department of Education regarding teachers who lost their license in the state.
The class assignment was to write “ways to kill” one particular student in the class, according to court records. The records state that the idea for the assignment came from another student in the class, but that the teacher went along with it.
The students reportedly pulled out their tablets and began to write various ways to kill the selected child in the class. Documents outline how the ideas from the students included chopping him up, throwing him out the window, burning him alive and feeding him to a dog.
That night the child told his parents, and authorities got involved.