Social Ohio high school and sexual writing assignments

[Lubaolong]

Sounds like someone making a big deal about nothing.

 

[Dan O]

stop screeching. No one tried to “sexualize kids” here. They were never given any assignments related to this stuff. It just happened to be that in a book of almost seven hundred prompts two mentioned sex and one mentioned a beer and the kids were never asked to do any of those prompts.

Could you guys clutch your pearls any harder over nothing? Wet paper bags have thicker skin than a lot of you.

Well allow me to reconsider my position based on this. So the students were never required to complete assignments based on the controversial prompts? They were only in a text issued to students? I don’t care for it being included but that does alter things a bit for me

 

[rearnakedchoke]

Red state gonna red state

 

[Otto!]

If you think you have ground to charge them, do it. Don’t play the “resign or we’ll charge you” game.

 

[shockaholic12]

Well allow me to reconsider my position based on this. So the students were never required to complete assignments based on the controversial prompts? They were only in a text issued to students? I don’t care for it being included but that does alter things a bit for me

correct, one can tell from reading the OP that these select prompts were never given as actual assignments to be completed. They just happened to exist in a book of 650 different prompts the students had received.

 

[shunyata]

That's likely. It's a book of writing prompts with an innocuous title - 642 Things to Write About.

Seems like a lot of it is "If each decade of your life was represented by a pop song, what would they be?" Or "You have been evicted from your home, but rather than live on the street you go to IKEA. At night you hide in the bathroom until the janitor leaves. Write about your life."

"Your educators are distributing essentially what is child pornography." "You either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged." Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Imbeciles.

It looks like Mayor just hated the board and wants to weaponize the scandal the get them swept out.

 

[HOLA]

There was more perverted shit in the Mad Libs we wrote in 4th grade.

Or what was hidden in some of those Where's Waldo?

They're corrupting our youth!

 

[Rational Poster]

Advanced high school student doing college level writing exercises?

That's horrible.

 

[Lubaolong]

There was more perverted shit in the Mad Libs we wrote in 4th grade.

Or what was hidden in some of those Where's Waldo?

They're corrupting our youth!

Pretty sure several classic novels and other books we read in high school had pretty explicit sex scenes. Also, this is some advanced English class. I assume that probably means an AP class typically taken by seniors? Yeah. Everyone knows no one in high school is ever involved in anything sexual. This is just dumb.

 

[Dan O]

correct, one can tell from reading the OP that these select prompts were never given as actual assignments to be completed. They just happened to exist in a book of 650 different prompts the students had received.

Thanks bud.

 

[HOLA]

I took an elective when I was in college. Some kind of sex ed thing. Teacher was in her 70's. She used to hop on the desk on all 4s and tell us the best angle for doggystyle and stuff.

One day she invited a gay guy to speak to the class and it turned into the girls shouting out male actor's names and asking him if he would screw them. When they shouted out Leonardo Dicaprio, he said, "ew no, he's dirty!" It was quite the controversy.

Best 3 credits ever.

Well, except for Spanish 102, with Ms. Rodriguez, who was a fine young latina from the Dominican Republic, and gave Hola the answers to exams. She looked like Salma Hayek from Desperado.

 

[HOLA]

Pretty sure several classic novels and other books we read in high school had pretty explicit sex scenes. Also, this is some advanced English class. I assume that probably means an AP class typically taken by seniors? Yeah. Everyone knows no one in high school is ever involved in anything sexual. This is just dumb.

Yep. 1984 had sex and torture. In Cold Blood was about real life murders. IIRC one of the kids sodomized a pig in Lord of The Flies. All pretty common in high school curriculums as far as I know.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

fucking disgusting

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Yeah , count me in the group that says 17-18 yr olds shouldn't have to write sexual fantasy stories and turn it into their teacher.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Yep. 1984 had sex and torture. In Cold Blood was about real life murders. IIRC one of the kids sodomized a pig in Lord of The Flies. All pretty common in high school curriculums as far as I know.

nothing wrong with reading about it but making the kids write about it for a teacher to read is creepy as fuck.

 

[Lubaolong]

nothing wrong with reading about it but making the kids write about it for a teacher to read is creepy as fuck.

No one made them write about it. It was in a book with a million other writing prompts that the school district was to use.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Much ado about nothing.

It doesn't sound like the students were given sexual writing assignments. They were given a book of 642 writing prompts that included sexual topics. The point of books like that are to challenge your creative writing skills.
The teachers are guilty of not properly and thoroughly vetting the book, but it's also a pretty easy thing to miss in a book with that many prompts.
To compare it to "child pornography" is some really stupid overreacting. Seems like this mayor just wanted an excuse to get rid of some people.

 

[Jballer]

Weird stuff.

In high school I had a history teacher that would add really weird and random extra credit questions to his tests. One was “pretend you were convicted of a felony. Write a newspaper article explaining what you did/how you got caught.” Another was “who do you think would win in a fight- Hitler or Bill Clinton (who was president at the time.)” There were many more like this. The guy had a screw or 2 loose for sure.

 

[44nutman]

Same thing happened to me in kindergarten.

They wanted me to see a Dick run. That's gross. If the dick is running that is either an STD or a serious medical condition

 

[HOLA]

nothing wrong with reading about it but making the kids write about it for a teacher to read is creepy as fuck.

Yeah , count me in the group that says 17-18 yr olds shouldn't have to write sexual fantasy stories and turn it into their teacher.

They weren't.

The content in question came in the form of prompts included in the “642 Things to Write About” book, which is part of the senior-level, college-credit course, Writing in the Liberal Arts II, at Hudson High School...“The district immediately determined this writing resource should not be in the hands of our students, and, on Monday, collected the books from the rudeness enrolled in the course,” he said. “It is important to note that at no time were any of these inappropriate writing prompts assigned as part of the class.”