#so like. idk how critically we were really being taught to think ig

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Anyone else who went to highschool in the mid-late 2010s have to learn about a real life murder trial via a true crime podcast as an english assignment or was that just our school

#i can for sure see the benefits of using content like that to promote critical thought but it was also kind of weird in retrospect #we were like 16 LOL what the hell did we know trying to play detective #especially because one of the things we covered was how the family was against the podcast making the murder into a spectacle #like one of our assignments was to write a hypothetical reply to a real life reddit post that the brother made asking people to stop #like i totally get how it was helping our brains expand. i GET that. but it's weird that it was Real. i see the benefit of that too #but still weird #and honestly it didn't really ask us to engage with the idea of the ethics of it. at all. #we were pretty much just told to write a reply explaining to the brother why we shouldn't stop and why is not exploitative #(again these would never actually be sent anywhere they were just for our teacher) #so like. idk how critically we were really being taught to think ig #but I know that if it was a college level course we would have been expected to sort of debate it a bit more #to at least question if the brother had a point rather than just like. write what we were told. #at least I can be more critical about it in retrospect ig. at the time i was just trying to do the assignment bc i was 16