Churchill High School: Parents slam school's assignment that includes sexual fantasy and sex toys
EUGENE, OREGON: Parents are outraged at Churchill High School in Eugene for giving an inappropriate assignment that asked health class students to come up with a sexual fantasy featuring items such as massage oil, flavored syrup, feathers, and sex toys as instructed in a syllabus approved by the district.
"You will write a short story of a paragraph or two. This story is a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI),’’ the assignment read." You will choose 3 items (romantic music, candles, massage oil, feathers, feather boas, flavored syrup, etc) to use in your story. Your story should show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex", it further added.
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'Did they actually read this?'
Katherine Rogers, an angry parent of one of the students, says that she condemned the sexual fantasy lesson handed out by teacher Kirk Miller, saying students in the class felt 'mortified, awkward, and creeped out'.
In a conversation with Oregon Live, Rogers also questioned how the district approves the syllabus saying, "The district reviews these curriculums before they get approved, right?"
"Did they actually read this? If this was reviewed, how did it slip through the cracks? I could see this easily becoming a national scandal," the furious mom added.
Eugene School District 4J claims that the school has since pulled the assignment from its syllabus.
'With whom would you do it?'
As the issue was quite big, further investigation of the health class syllabus was done, which revealed that students had also been given the 'With Whom Would You Do It?' assignment back in February 2022, which involved a virtual spinning wheel labeled with sexual categories that students needed to respond to when the wheel stopped.
The principal's statement
Churchill High School Principal Missy Cole sent out a letter to parents following the backlash, insisting that the school was just following the approved curriculum. "I am certain you are aware of concerns that have been raised around a health 2 – human sexuality, class assignment," Cole said to NY Post.
"Our administration is working with the district office to review the 2016 adopted secondary health curriculum – OWL: Our Whole Lives to determine the full context of the assignment. At this time, the assignment has been removed from the class syllabus and will not be part of students’ grades", she continued.
“Families are provided the course syllabus at the start of each term with an option to opt their student out of some or all of the coursework. As always, we welcome the review of curriculum and discussions with our families", the principal added.