Fury at 'disgraceful' claims school children 'told to re-enact Hillsborough' in class
dailystar.co.ukdad has claimed his daughter was told to re-enact the Hillsborough disaster in a drama lesson in Wigan. The 12-year-old pupil at St John Fisher Catholic High School reportedly came home on Wednesday, February 2, and told her father she had been learning about Liverpool.After her dad asked what that had entailed, she told him they had been re-enacting the Hillsborough crush, an event which claimed the lives of 97 unlawfully killed Liverpool supporters, in drama class.
She also claimed pupils had been told to shout "don't crush me" and some, she said, pretended to be dead, reports the LiverpoolEcho.
Today (February 8), the school said pupils were taught about Hillsborough and other disasters, and that the subject was "treated with the utmost respect", but did not provide a comment addressing the claims about re-enacting the disaster.The ECHO understands the school does not accept the claim that pupils were asked to re-enact elements of the disaster.
The dad, who asked to remain anonymous, told the paper he was "furious" when his daughter told him. He said: "When she first said they were learning about Hillsborough, I asked her about what part, expecting it to be about everything that happened afterwards. "When she told me they were being told to recreate the crush shouting 'don't crush me, stop crushing me' and some of them being told to 'die', I was shocked.
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