SCOTTSDALE - After staged incidents resulted in calls to police the past two years, a Desert Mountain High School assignment that requires students to act out and videotape a mock crime will no longer be required.
Scottsdale Unified School District spokeswoman Marijke Van Fleet said Monday that school officials decided to eliminate the assignment that led to last month's arrests of three students.
Teacher David Mietzner's popular criminology class will remain part of curriculum, however.
A Jan. 21 incident involved a mock shooting and kidnapping in north Scottsdale. It caused a neighbor to call 911 after he heard shots and screams and saw what he believed was a real crime.
The incident marked the second straight year Scottsdale police responded to what they believed was a crime in progress but turned out to be a project from Mietzner's class.
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