A health teacher at an Oregon high school instructed students to write a short story about their sexual fantasies and publicly identify which classmates they would have sex with.
Students at Winston Churchill High School in Eugene, Ore., who missed class earlier this month were tasked with writing a sexually explicit story as a makeup assignment, KEZI 9 News reported. The assignment prompt instructed students to write a "Fantasy Story" with "NO penetration of any kind or oral sex" in order to "show that you can show and receive loving physical affection without having sex."
"You will choose 3 items (romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc.) to use in the story," the prompt read.
After a Churchill High parent shared the prompt on Facebook, other parents raised concerns about the same class, which in February required students to play a game called "With Whom Would You Do It?"
During the game, a spinning wheel labeled with sexual acts, including anal penetration and oral sex, was projected in the classroom. When the wheel stopped on a category, students were supposed to mark the initials of a male and female student with whom they would want to perform the act.
"My daughter was very, very, very uncomfortable in the classroom," Justin McCall told KEZI 9 News. McCall noted that his daughter and her friend opted out of the activity, but "still got graded."
Both sexually explicit assignments are part of a health curriculum adopted by the Eugene School Board in 2016. While the district has agreed to drop the curriculum following parent outcry, the teacher, who is also a football coach, has not been disciplined.
Oregon is the latest blue state to embrace sexually explicit curricula. Thousands of Massachusetts parents in 2021 pulled children from sex education classes in which kindergartners learned about genitalia. Hundreds of Illinois school districts last year opted out of statewide sex education standards that directed teachers to instruct students about a number of controversial topics, including hormone blockers.