And as it’s almost Hallowe’en, another unnerving tale:

Or, when you’re a public-school teacher and one of your colleagues suggests that you avoid eye contact with a pupil who, for no discernible reason, writes luridly and at length about you dying in horrible ways.

As the pupil in question happened to be black, some educators have taken umbrage at any acknowledgement of this detail. Olivia Mullins, apparently an expert in “equitable teaching,” has issued a decree that one isn’t allowed to use an image of “a dark skinned black child with a menacing expression” when recounting an incident, experienced first-hand, involving a dark skinned black child with a menacing expression.

Alternative images have subsequently been suggested.

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