A Texas high school has been criticized for including Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse among a list of individuals for a writing project about a “hero for the modern age.”The teenager, who was charged with killing two people and injuring another during protests against the police shooting of a black man in Wisconsin in August, was named alongside civil rights campaigner Malcolm X and anti-colonial protester Mahatma Gandhi for the assignment.Also on the list were César Chávez, the Latino American civil rights activist, George Floyd, whose death sparked a global wave of anti-racism and police brutality protests, and Joseph Rosenbaum, one of the two protesters Rittenhouse is accused of killing.For part one of the assignment, students at the W.T. White High School in Dallas were invited to write a half-page biography of one of the six men.Newsweek subscription offers >Part two involved students writing a page-long essay on which of the individuals “demonstrates best your concept of a hero.” One relative of a student at the school, who gave her name only as Kristian, told CBS 11 News that she was shocked not only about the inclusion of Rittenhouse but a lack of women on the list.Newsweek subscription offers >Others… Read full this story
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