
A Cary-Grove High School student charged with disorderly conduct for writing a violently descriptive class essay had received an assignment that said: "Write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing."
Allen Lee, 18, responded with passages about "shooting everyone" and having "sex with the dead bodies," according to a disorderly conduct complaint filed Thursday by McHenry County prosecutors, Tom Carroll, the first assistant state's attorney, said.
Emling provided a reporter with a copy of the class assignment, which was titled "Free Writing." It advised students to "write non-stop for a set period of time. Do not make corrections as you write. Keep writing, even if you have to write something like, 'I don't know what to write.'
"Emling said another recent English assignment was to write a 32-page children's book. Lee's book was about Hitler as a baby taking over the playground, Emling said.
Released excerpts have been released by the prosecutor's office, and are not in context.
And, Allen Lee, the student, is scheduled to start Marine boot camp in October.
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