American psychology teacher Jeffrey Keane, 63, was fired after he asked his students at Dr. Phillips High School, near Orlando, Florida, to write him an obituary, which he announced on Facebook and said he wanted to link his course from an exercise designed to prepare its students for the entry of a gunman into high school, AFP reported, according to News.ro.

Armed attacks on schools in the USAPhoto: Ben Gyngell / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia

“Today is your last day, write your obituary,” they told the students and asked them to write about their “impressions” related to this “simulation” and to think about the recurring mass murders in the United States, about possible solutions.

In the note, he wrote, “thank you for understanding that it is absolutely not about bothering you.”

He was released on Tuesday.

In a statement published by the American press, the school management accused him of giving his students “improper homework”.

Jeffrey Keane defended himself on local American TV stations.

“Not to scare them or make them think they’re going to die, but to help them understand what’s important in their lives,” he told NBC News.

He told Fox News 5 that his firing “froze me.”

“I talked to the students about the world they live in, about firearms, about attackers,” he said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), firearms were the leading cause of death among American minors in 2020, with 4,368 deaths, followed by car accidents and overdoses.

Gun attacks in school settings are only a small fraction of gun attacks, but they are shocking.

The United States was rocked by the 2012 massacre at a school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, which killed 20 children, and since May 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two teachers.

The majority of Americans, however, remain very much in favor of the right to bear firearms and do not want to hear about any reform, even minimal.

Two elected representatives from the state of Tennessee (South) have been kicked out of their state legislature for joining demonstrators who came to demand better gun laws in the semi-circle after the shooting at an elementary school in Nashville.