As a talking Chihuahua, what would you tell your humans about the new crying baby who now lives with you? The book titled ‘642 Things to Write About’ contains writing prompts with topics some consider to be inappropriate for high school students. Parents were outraged over a book of writing prompts given to high school students taking a college credit course called “Writing in the Liberal Arts II.” I absolutely adore this teacher. She is a wonderful, caring person who really cares about the state of the kids," said Regan Raeth. “People are just making up scenarios to get upset about. And it could potentially cost a lot of people their jobs or their livelihood, which is upsetting."

In a prepared statement, Superintendent Phil Herman said the “inappropriate and offensive writing prompts” were part of a supplemental resource used in the high school senior-level College Credit Plus writing sections. It's not something my other child ever mentioned because it was such a non-issue, non-part of the class,” said Raeth. The book provided to students called: 642 Things To Write About” contained writing prompts that encouraged students to write about sex, drinking, and murder.The Raeth family plans to attend the next school board meeting and share their perspective about the book being used in class. In its official capacity, the Board of Education will be ensuring that a thorough investigation and process review has taken place and will utilize the results of the investigation to determine any necessary actions to be taken. If there’s one positive that can be attributed to the pandemic school closures, it’s that the “virtual learning” allowed parents to see what exactly was being taught to their kids. Public school enrollment dropped during the pandemic, and homeschooling has increased dramatically despite remaining a steady 3.3% of students since 2012. Parents deserve choice, not a one-size-fits-all education system that includes B.S. material that doesn’t actually educate students.

Nor has it fazed other parents of kids in the class who she said have spoken out in defense of the book’s use on social media. While emphasizing he is not familiar with the Hudson Board of Education’s process to approve curriculum, Lusher said school boards typically have a process where curriculum is reviewed by committees before it comes before the board for its approval. He said he believes it’s “unlikely that something would get to them that is of such moral turpitude that it would bring criminal charges.” Even so, given recent concerns presented by parents of students in this course, the District collected the books and discontinued their use. Raeth said her teacher only used the book a few times a week to help students get creative with their writing at the beginning of classes and they never used any of the more explicit prompts.

Join the conversation!

Many of the prompts in the book were benign, such as describing the worst Thanksgiving dish you’ve ever had, but according to Cleveland.com, one of the parents of a student that received the material read out several of the prompts that are clearly not meant for high school students. We’ve never heard of criminal charges [filed against a school board] for curriculum,” said Ralph Lusher, staff attorney with the Ohio School Boards Association. Raeth has another daughter, Anja, who currently takes the CCP writing course at Hudson High School. Want to improve your creative writing? Start with these TED-Ed Lessons: How to write fiction that comes alive, How fiction can change reality and How to build a fictional world. It’s not clear whether the board can be held criminally liable for material that was being used in a class.

Mayor Craig Shubert spoke up at the meeting and gave the 5-member School Board an ultimatum — resign or be charged. You are a brand-new suicide-hotline counselor. Describe how you feel during the course of your first call. We did not exercise due diligence when we reviewed this resource, and as a result, we overlooked several writing prompts among the 642 that are not appropriate for our high school audience,” said Wilch. “…We feel terrible. At no time were any of these inappropriate prompts selected or discussed, but still, they were there, and they were viewable, and you can’t unsee them.”

Similar Articles

The book went unnoticed for years until some parents and administrators discovered the prompts inside Friday. I've heard mention of, like, 'We shouldn't offer these classes at all.' So then then they're taking away an opportunity for these children to have college credit," said Raeth.

The Raeths are also concerned about the teacher who oversees the writing course at Hudson High School. BREAKING: Hudson mayor demands all school board members resign or face possible criminal charges over high school course material that he said a judge called "child pornography." It’s 1849, and you’re headed West along the Oregon Trail. Describe the safety features of your state-of-the-art covered wagon. The book was used for years in the school’s College Credit Plus writing class, but was taken away from students Monday after parents and administrators became aware of some of the writing prompts inside.The Mayor called the book titled: 642 Things To Write About, which was given to students “child pornography.” You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward? Even though Regan Raeth only graduated last year, she's already a second-semester junior at Kent State University. She was able to get those credits by taking the College Credit Plus and AP courses.