Social Ohio high school and sexual writing assignments

Mayor of the town, after multiple students shared the assignments with their parents after it made them uncomfortable, is calling for their entire school board to resign and a judge called the assignments "essentially child pornography"

“It has come to my attention that your educators are distributing essentially what is child pornography in the classroom,” Hudson Mayor Craig Shubert told the Hudson Board of Education during a meeting Monday.

“I’ve spoken to a judge this evening. She’s already confirmed that. So I’m going to give you a simple choice: You either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged,” Shubert said before leaving the podium, receiving applause from the audience.

Shubert’s statement followed the revelation that high school students enrolled in the advanced course “Writing in the Liberal Arts II,” were issued a book called 642 Things to Write About, which featured some overtly sexual writing prompts designed for adolescents.

Among the ideas in the book were suggestions to “write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom” and to “rewrite the sex scene from above into one that you’d let your mom read.” Another prompt encouraged underage drinking, asking students to consume a beer and describe its taste, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Others asked the students to write out X-rated Disney scenes, a sermon for a preacher caught in a sex scandal, choosing how you would die, and what would be on your DVR if you were a serial killer.

So... A nothingburger. I actually believed it might be legitimately salacious. Never give the benefit of the doubt to the conservative Christian crew.
 
You claim nobody who has a problem with the prompts actually looked at the prompts. Did you? Because the example I listed, the one you're claiming they weren't prompted to do, was literally read out loud from the book by a parent at the board meeting. Did you even read or watch anything on this?




Because libs/wokeness/CRT are neutrally political topics? C'mon now. It ain't the parents making it political in the first place.



Again with this stuff. "Defunding the police doesn't mean actually defunding the police!" You guys use that logic to defend the strangest things.

I read a couple articles, and I saw a video of the mayor speaking.

I'm not disputing that those prompts exist in the books. I am saying that the people with the problem are misrepresenting what the book is, and what the situation is. They are making it out to be like the class is being taught some depraved sexual shit, just like CRT nuts act like CRT is an Antifa "fuck whitey" briefing, and that that's being taught in school.
We're talking about an advanced liberal arts class for 17 year olds that is for college credit.
To make allegations of "distributing child pornography" and act like we're talking about small children is completely over looking that important context of the situation, and misrepresenting what is happening.

In that same book are prompts for " 'the worst Thanksgiving dish, or writing about the perfect day as an astronaut."
I'm not defending the book. I'm saying that the motivation and the cause of the anger isn't genuine. It's just a product of this political environment.
I don't personally see an issue with a 17 year old in an advanced college credit class SEEING the words 'sex' and 'beer' in a book--especially when the book is literally for college credit. I would expect those students to be more mature.
BUT, if that is a problem to other parents, then they are free to change the book.
But to act like there is some kind of devious evil scheme here is silly. The school board apologized and said they'd take back the book and find a new one, that should've been the end of it.


It's the similar issue when discussing things like CRT or Defund the police. People misrepresenting what these issues are about because of their politics. Things like CRT and Civil Rights doesn't have a side--it is what it is.
You guys want these things to be straight forward, black and white, when they're not.
 
Where assignments like this when I was in school?
 
The age of consent in Ohio is 16 years old…

The “kids” in question are older than that.

They are young adults, past the age of consent, who can already fuck legally whether their parents like it or not. They are old enough to drink in many countries. They’re going off to college next year. This “scandal” is laughable.

On the bright side it really helps me see who the morons are on here.

Pretty cool stuff : now tell me some other edgy and mature opinions you have, apart from liking to sexualize children?
A 16 years old isn't an adult and providing material that encourages sexual fantasies isn't certainly up to to the school, neither by will or by accident.
The problem is of course people like you and your lacking capacity to grasp neither reality or any long term effects of anything that might span further than your own hedonism and self-anecdotal experience or let's say in your case, further than your wanking arm reaches.

No scandal, only gross incompetence that brings out the no-boundaries, no-accountability crowd out of the woodwork to white knight the shit out of some pencil-pushing losers who never cared to read the material they were responsible to overview.

On the bright side, posts like yours help me see who the REAL morons are in here.
 
Pretty cool stuff : now tell me some other edgy and mature opinions you have, apart from liking to sexualize children?
A 16 years old isn't an adult and providing material that encourages sexual fantasies isn't certainly up to to the school, neither by will or by accident.
The problem is of course people like you and your lacking capacity to grasp neither reality or any long term effects of anything that might span further than your own hedonism and self-anecdotal experience or let's say in your case, further than your wanking arm reaches.

No scandal, only gross incompetence that brings out the no-boundaries, no-accountability crowd out of the woodwork to white knight the shit out of some pencil-pushing losers who never cared to read the material they were responsible to overview.

On the bright side, posts like yours help me see who the REAL morons are in here.
hedonism!! LOL
 
How so? It was in the book given out.

The offensive prompts were 2 or 3 out of about 650 in a book. There are no reports that a single student was ever asked to write any of these prompts. Is all your Pearl clutching because some students may have read a prompt in a book that included the word sex?
 
So why do you think an elected judge feels otherwise?

The claim that the mayor ran this by a judge who gave some sort advisory opinion is very suspect. Giving an advisory opinion like this may well be a violation of the judicial cannons. Was evidence presented to this judge from both sides, did the discussion follow the rules of civil procedure? Certainly if this becomes an actual court case, the judge would have to recuse herself for already having an opinion on the matter. This is a bad look for the judge,
 
The offensive prompts were 2 or 3 out of about 650 in a book. There are no reports that a single student was ever asked to write any of these prompts. Is all your Pearl clutching because some students may have read a prompt in a book that included the word sex?
Nobody said the entire book was about sex. You guys that think there's nothing wrong with assigning it out to children are really weird.
 
The claim that the mayor ran this by a judge who gave some sort advisory opinion is very suspect. Giving an advisory opinion like this may well be a violation of the judicial cannons. Was evidence presented to this judge from both sides, did the discussion follow the rules of civil procedure? Certainly if this becomes an actual court case, the judge would have to recuse herself for already having an opinion on the matter. This is a bad look for the judge,
Are you lawyer?
 
So in a book of 642 writing prompts used in an advanced (college level) writing class for high school seniors, there were a handful of risque story-starters. Big freaking deal. "Child pornography!...charge the school board!" LOL, give me a break. High school seniors in a college-bound advanced writing class, dude.

I've been an English/Reading/Media Studies teacher in middle and high schools for 20 years. Obviously you have to vet your course materials, but it's not like these particular writing topics were assigned to the students. While the pearl-clutchers are always talking about how the 17-18 year old kids are so innocent and impressionable, what's funny is when you teach HS creative writing with narrative fiction assignments, the kids always wind up making even the most innocuous assignments inappropriate and "R-rated" because they want to be sophisticated and edgy. Then you have to have a conference with the student and tell them to tone it down...essentially the teachers are the ones telling the students to dial down the sexual and/or violent content and language, not encouraging it. I used to dread teaching creative writing/poetry units because of all the parent/counselor phone calls I'd have to make because of sexually explicit writing and/or suicidal ideations. I feel bad for the folks embroiled in this "scandal" and I'm sure they regret letting it slip through undetected.
 
Nobody said the entire book was about sex. You guys that think there's nothing wrong with assigning it out to children are really weird.

No. You had said in your post that asking kids to write about sex was messed up. It appears to be the case that no student was asked to write about sex,
 
No. You had said in your post that asking kids to write about sex was messed up. It appears to be the case that no student was asked to write about sex,
You're splitting hairs. If you want I'll edit my post to say assigning the book that has that content is fucked up.
 
Are you lawyer?

Yes, 20 years. I’ve also served as a Special Magistrate. One of my closest friends is on the bench. I can’t say I’ve never run an issue by him but we are super careful how we talk about it and I’d never screw him by announcing in public that he has already looked at an issue and determined that someone may or may not go to jail.
 
Agree to disagree. I maintain the book is a fucked up thing to hand out to high school students.
Agreed. Seems too advanced for a body of students that can run the gamut from the bubble wrapped virgin to online porn stars. The material should have been vetted for suitable content.
 
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