A teacher in Alabama has been placed on paid leave after allegedly having her sixth grade students re-enact the death of Michael Brown, who was shot to death earlier this month by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
The assignment began with the teacher, whose name has not been released, asking the students to research the shooting, according to a local NBC affiliate. But it then morphed into role-playing, with the students being asked to construct fake guns with fake bullets. And yes, the project involved a white student "shooting" a black student, according to one parent.
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