A Eugene, Oregon, health teacher asked his freshmen students to describe their sexual fantasies in one writing assignment and to list fellow students with whom they would like to have sex in another.
Parents were furious and Churchill High School is now reconsidering its under-fire curriculum.
The teacher and sports coach wrote that students must, “Write a short story of a paragraph or two [about] a sexual fantasy ...”
Students were instructed to “choose 3 items [romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather boa, flavored syrup,] to use in your story.
“Your story should show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex.”
He previously gave an assignment called, “With Whom Would You Do It?” that encouraged bisexuality.
That assignment required students to, “List on the handout the initials of a male and a female that you would do each activity with. You may use the same person for multiple activities.”
“So while we are teaching our daughter to abstain from sex, her high school health teacher is asking her to pick out sexual partners and swing both ways,” one outraged mother told The Epoch Times.
Parents said that the activities in question were sexual in nature. Students in the class said they felt “awkward and creeped out,” by the assignments.
“Why a teacher and coach feels entitled to the sexual fantasies of minor-aged male and female students is beyond my understanding,” wrote Sheena Bean on a parent Facebook thread.
“This is completely inappropriate and sickening. Can you imagine having to look your teacher or coach in the eye knowing he has knowledge of your most intimate imagination? This has no business in school!”
In an email sent to Churchill High families on March 9, Principal Missy Cole said she and other administrators at the high school will work with Eugene school district officials to review its high school health curriculum, which is called Our Whole Lives and was developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
“At this time, the assignment has been removed from the class syllabus and will not be a part of students’ grades,” Cole wrote to parents.
“The Our Whole Lives curriculum is utilized by many districts across the state and is endorsed by the Oregon Department of Education.”
But on March 10, the Oregon Department of Education said that the curriculum is not on the state’s list of recommended instructional materials for high school health classes.
This assignment comes as Oregon schools lost 34,000 students and have one of the worst graduation rates in America.
Oregon’s public education system continues to rank 41st in the nation for education.
“This kind of curriculum has no place in our schools. The Oregon education system is failing our kids with less than 45 percent reading at grade level and less than 32 percent able to do math at grade level.
“We need to be focusing on academics and catching our kids up on years of pandemic-related learning loss,” Mackensey Pulliam of Oregon Moms Union told the Epoch Times in an email.
“The purpose of our schools is to set students up for success as they enter the workforce or higher education, not to teach them about sexual fantasies.”
Meanwhile, the Oregon Legislature is considering a bill to add climate change education to the state’s curriculum.
