Louisville school officials said the ruling would not affect their school assignment plan for the coming school year.

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The teacher has not been in school since the district learned of the assignment.

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Matt shared with me that he often misses the small things about being in school, like writing papers and the occasional homework assignment.

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Students in three Albany High School English classes received the assignment, which was due Wednesday.

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Adele Schroeter has ordered sensitivity training for the entire staff of Public School 59 in Manhattan following last month's assignment, the Daily News reported Friday.

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The school system's superintendent says she believed that the teacher bore no ill intent but that the assignment should have been worded differently.

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Instead, when working alone you can treat the assignment as a theoretical exercise, like a B-school case study to turn in to the professor.

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He attended a trade school to become a court reporter, and when he joined the Army, three and a half years out of high school, that was his assignment.

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If a teacher in an elementary school, public or private, sends a child home with an assignment to watch Fox News, the teacher risks being hauled into the principal's office for exposing a child to a biased source.

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