Shocked at Use of a Casket in Class

I can’t begin to tell you how upset, shocked and angered I was to read about Mary Duxler’s antics showing her Pierce College speech class a casket as part of her last lecture.

I taught the first high school classes on death education at Grant High School for eight years and never, I repeat never, would I use such a crass, rude and totally insensitive device to capture my students’ attention. The possibilities of traumatizing even one student should have prevented such a measure.

Her thoughtlessness in doing this awful thing unannounced, so that those who might choose to leave the room could do so, was equally reprehensible.

JOSEPH N. FEINSTEIN

Sherman Oaks

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