Destiney McDermitt, 16, a junior at Hill McCloy High School in Montrose, about 70 miles northwest of Detroit, was instructed by an English teacher on Feb.

7 to pick a topic she felt strongly about and argue either for or against it as part of an assignment titled "Taking a Stand," she and her mother Angela McDermitt-Jackson told NBC News on Tuesday.

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