WASHINGTON — “I enjoy killing.” That sentence would help satisfy a writing assignment given to children at a Germantown middle school for two reasons.

The sentence contains a gerund, and the topic of the assignment was for kids to describe how they would kill their teacher.

“The teacher was trying to make the assignment engaging and connect it to Halloween,” Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig tells WTOP.

As first reported by the Washington Post, the teacher at Kingsview Middle School wanted the assignment to “be an engaging way to review grammar concepts.”

In an email to WTOP, Tofig says the teacher “used poor judgment and made a mistake. She apologized. The event occurred 3 months ago and there have been no further issues.”

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