Cedar Hill, Texas – A teacher at Cedar Hill High School was questioned after an assignment came to light involving students watching Derek Chauvin's murder trial and acting as mock-jurors.

When parents found out their kids were watching Derek Chauvin's trial in a communications class without their knowledge, the floodgates opened.

Not only did they not approve of their freshman-age children watching the trial at school, they were never even informed of the assignment in the first place.

After he was confronted, the teacher shared an email with his students' parents, informing them of the assignment and specifics. According to WFAA, students were reportedly set to watch clips from the trial during class and as part of their homework, over the course's six-to-seven week duration.

Students were told to not discuss the trial or the case with anyone, parents and family dogs included, until after a mock trial was held in class.

After parents sounded the alarm, the school took action and put a stop to the disturbing experiment.

Over the first and only week of testimony assigned, students saw some of the more graphic elements surrounding the trial, including video clips of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for over nine minutes.

The videos from the crime of the scene are nothing new to the worldwide web, and videos have been circulating around social media since May 25, 2020, when the event took place.

Still, WFAA reported that parents had issues with their kids being shown potentially traumatizing material in the middle of the school day, when kids don't have the time or resources to process what they just saw. They didn't just air their grievances out online or with friends; they took it up with Cedar Hill High School directly.

One parent shared the letter she wrote to the school with WFAA, which read, "It is unfathomable to me that you felt it appropriate to force my child to watch George Floyd’s murder on television in your classroom, and then move on with his day as if nothing had happened".

Cedar High School Principal Jason Miller clarified the school's stance: "I don't feel that viewing and discussing this case in school is age-appropriate for scholars."