7yr old SWF seeking?
MUM was horrified to learn that her seven-year-old girl’s homework was to write a sexy dating ad.
Sharon Underwood, 33, was alerted only when daughter Chloe asked what “passionate” meant.
The schoolgirl had even been asked to include racy words including “cheap, dangerous, fit, wild and gorgeous”.
Sharon said: “I was just so shocked. It’s appalling, disgusting.”
But when she complained to her local Catholic school in Gillingham, Kent, the teacher replied: “It’s not like I’m giving the homework to a dating agency.”
Sharon added: “Chloe did not know what a dating agency was and there is no reason why, at seven, she should.”
The teacher at St Mary’s primary had taken the worksheet from the BBC Skillswise website for ADULTS to improve reading, writing and maths ability. The sheet even suggested including a photo.
St Mary’s, which says it uses “true Christian values”, has apologised.
A spokesman admitted the work was “clearly inappropriate for children of that age”.
The school added: “It was a mistake. It will not happen again.” [Source]
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And this is a Catholic school?
I thought you had to have a brain and common sense to be a teacher.....perhaps not.
At least we didn't get "we value freedom of expression ..."
That bull*&#$ is "clearly inappropriate for children of any age"! I would question my child every day and make sure she/he knew all the red flags. It can be done, people. My parents did it for me thirty years ago. Even then the indoctrinations had begun but thanks to my parents, I was alert to them and handed them to the people who were authorized by God to be in charge of my life.
Your children are under a barrage of every sort of anti-Christian sentiment out there. It rains down on them like some sort of radioactive fallout. If you can't homeschool them...you'd better be in communication with other parents so that you know every single thing being said to your children.
As Mark Shea would say, and probably has, Reason #4,876,259,058,143 To Homeschool.
Yet another reason I don't send my precious, innocent children to the local "Catholic" school. Ours has pajama day, where all the students and staff wear their nightwear to school 2 times a year. Can you respect your teacher if you see them teaching in their jammies?
We homeschool because we want them to get a good Catholic education and the only place they can get that these days is at home.
"I thought you had to have a brain and common sense to be a teacher.....perhaps not."
Ducky8, have you ever met an ed major? I think in a School of Education, brain and common sense are highly discouraged.
Unbelievable but not surprising. And a "Catholic" school, too.
One more reason we are homeschooling our 5 year old.
BTW - Fr. Fession said in a recent interview with Hugh Hewitt that families that homeschool (especially Catholic ones) are the "monasteries of the New Dark Age." Couldn't agree more ...
Couldn't agree more.
ditto on the home scooling comments.
I have to add that I teach college writing and find this assignment inappropriate for any age group. Even though I teach at a state college, I try to design assignments that reflect my own values: having students do community service and write about it, asking them to write about their heroes, etc.
Shame on the BBC for having such junk on their website.
Why pile on the school? An individual teacher did something stupid, someone rightfully complained, and the administrators did exactly what they should do - apologise and promise not to let it happen again. Good for them. Unless you want endless committees scrutinizing every assignment given by every teacher, some individual teacher is going to do something wrong on occasion, even at the best Catholic School in the world (homeschools included).
The teaching nuns of the past were sometimes mean, and always strict, and this kind of junk just didn't happen.
Amen Mark.
It sounds a lot like the Catholic school I went to for eight years. We, however, did the mushy liberal "God loves you and you are very special" (you know, the stuff that is so sweet and superficial it makes you want to barf) stuff and not racy ads. Though, times have dramatically changed since I have been in that school (it's only been three years, which is pretty scary to consider).