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Mother Outraged After 4th Grader Brings Home ‘Adult-Themed’ Homework About Infidelity

Feb. 19, 2013 12:54pm Erica Ritz

4th Grader at Playa Del Rey Elementary School in Arizona Gets Homework Assignment About Infidelity

(Photo: ABC15)

A 4th grade student at the Playa Del Rey Elementary School in Arizona said she was “a little shocked” when she opened up her homework assignment last week. Not quite the reading material the 10-year-old was probably used to, the worksheet asked her to explain what was happening in a situation where a woman finds another woman’s hair clip under the bed.

“It was shocking that [they] would actually put that on a 4th grader’s homework,” Kyera McCloskey told ABC 15 with precocious maturity. “I kinda had my mom help me with the answer a little bit, because I didn’t want to go too deep into what the question was trying to ask me…”

In the end, she wrote: “The husband had cheated, and he was in big trouble.”

When Kyera’s mother Heather Nicks informed the school district, she was told the teacher hadn’t written the assignment, and merely skimmed it before passing it out. The teacher immediately apologized to all the parents in the class, and the school denounced the assignment.

But Nicks still wasn’t pleased.

“If my kid turned in an assignment and they skimmed it, they’d get in trouble for it, they’d get a bad grade,” she said. “That’s not a subject matter that the school needs to bring up to my child.”

Here’s the ABC 15 report:

But TheBlaze was left wondering — if the teacher didn’t write it, who did? What curriculum is this school using?

A school representative informed TheBlaze over the phone that the assignment was not part of the school curriculum, which the board approves, but was part of an online curriculum that the teacher had used in the past with “great success.”

The teacher had utilized all the board-approved materials to teach inferences and, as she is allowed to do, sought additional outside material.

“She downloaded a worksheet, but unfortunately she read the first two scenarios but did not read the last two,” the Playa Del Rey Elementary School representative told us.

The assignment has since been removed from the website, she said, but declined to provide the name of the site.

“This is not condoned in any way,” she concluded, noting that the school has repeatedly apologized. “We’d like to be done with it and move on.”

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steveinva
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:26pm
Love the last line,
“This is not condoned in any way,” she concluded, noting that the school has repeatedly apologized. “We’d like to be done with it and move on.”

Noithing to see here…

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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:49pm
  And yet this moral sewage is spewed at the public in a nonstop flow through “soap operas”, and “sitcoms” and films. I’m curious about the moral outrage when infidelity is presented in a homework assignment, and yet NOT A PEEP of complaint from American familes when it is packaged in an “entertainment” format?
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:54pm
  And I’ll best very few people even bothered to find the time from their precious busy schedules to call or write this school speaking out about this and how these mistakes should never happen again. The progressives and anti-family types continue to beat the crap out of any sensible conservatives because conservatives are too damn lazy to do anything about it.
  
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- memyselfandi
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:40pm
  My 3 grade child brought home a geography paper asking the question which South American country borders Mexico…The teacher was so surprised when I responded to the homework assignment question saying that none of them did…they had completely left out the Central American nations. On top of that, I was the only parent in the entire school that caught the mistake.
  
  Who the heck writes this stuff and who approves it???
  
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- steveinva
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:56pm
  Theo, I agree. Networks, culture, decline of religion and moral relativism has been dragging our culture into the abyss for the last 30 years. It is now cool to be a moral reprobate that is inconsiderate, rude and self centered.
  
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- shimauma
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Betcha that teacher was recently divorced.
  
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- formidable_foe
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:47pm
  So much for the teacher’s proof-reading.
  
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- Luke Gooch
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:53pm
  These low-info ‘educators’ are using zero tolerance policies to expel 5 year olds for normal behavior (playing war with imaginary grenades). We should adopt a similar zero tolerance stance. Fire the teacher and her superiors. Give them a little of their own medicine.
  
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- Oldtimer2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:56pm
  Online curriculum? Online curriculum is Common Core. If you don’t know what Common Core is, you need to educate yourself. It’s the final nail in the coffin for dumbing down our kids. It’s not about learning, it’s about social justice. O and Arnie Duncan think it’s great and the “way forward”, that alone should tell you it’s crap.
  
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- PASSIONFORCHRIST
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:26pm
  The mom can make the district provide her FREE of charge, the curriculum her child will be learning until she graduates from this elementary school. She has that right as a parent!!!!!!!!!!! Then she can pick and choose what she wants her child exposed to! She has the final word.
  
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- BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:50pm
  I am not making this up. Last year, my daughter’s 7th grade literature assignment called for her to write the eulogy of a friend that she had KILLED. I was so shocked. My oldest child had gotten into some trouble years before over a story she had written that had the word “kill” in it. She was suspended for three days and had to go before the board to determine if she would actually be expelled. Up unto that point, she wanted to be author someday. She stopped writing completely after that. Since graduating high school last year, she has enlisted into the Army.
  
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- sta
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:26am
  There are LOTS of online Curriculum. Not just the ones provided by the state.
  Even Bob Jones University has one.
  
  So the question is WHAT IS THE CURRICULUM?
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Teachers unfamiliar with geography, failing to proofread, and more.
  After reading these comments, I think (nay, KNOW) that Blazers are far better suited to teaching kids than today’s “teachers”.
  
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- chikonabike
  Posted on February 24, 2013 at 10:42am
  @theo…while I agree with you about our “entertainment”, some parents don’t allow their children to watch the shows/channels with all the garbage. When the teacher hands this out as homework, we have no chance to shield our children from that. My kid grew up when “Friends” was on and when she was in fourth grade, all of her peers were watching this. But we, as her parents, decided that, though very funny, it wasn’t appropriate viewing for her age group. Then she came home with her middle school yearbook, which had references to the show and the kids had even picked that as their favorite tv show that year. We had to explain to her what the references meant. So, when you get hit with stuff like this from the place you least expect it, it throws you off-guard.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:18pm
6 figures paid to teachers with Masters Degrees, who basically read the menu of educational directives available to them to students and they are “counselors”?

You could ask the employee at Taco Bell, what’s on the menu, and he gets paid mimimum wage? Go figure?

40% of children don’th have fathers, and what percentage of teacher union pensions went unfunded until the Stimulous package was passed? Do you really need a college degree to figure out the disparity between culture, education, and what they are pushing between peer pressure, media, and educational systems?

Remember the Alamo? Remember the Wah Wah?

After decades of all these college graduates, why are we not seeing more home schooling? Why not tax breaks for home schooling and taking the burden off government employee pensions we can’t afford anyway?

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The_Woofster
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:15pm
I’m wondering if Mommy was the one who actually cheated? But that would be ok, it’s part of the discovery-exploration process to see who we really are!

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- freedomofspeech
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:34pm
  Yes, explore yourself, you may not be the 10yr old you think you are. And after this he can be taught quantum physics.
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:13pm
She admitted she is not competent to teach. She didn’t read the assignment. Just skimmed it? I just love publc sector unions.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:29pm
  And there we have it once again. The incompetence that is dumbing down the population. Disband the4 NEA, no tenure, and term limits.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:58pm
  I, for one, am tiring of the “It’s not my fault…someone else is to blame” mentality that is polluting our culture. It really is time for parents to start bloodying the noses of these ingrates who call themselves educators!!!
  
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Carrie3570
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:12pm
*Sigh* Children should not know about any of this in grade school.

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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I only JUST had the “Birds and Bees” talk with my 11 1/2 year old fifth grader. (and he was mortified!) This is SOOOOOO inappropriate for a fourth grade class.
  
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belief101
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:12pm
So what are our liberal friends doing? How do we not know the mom was not having an affair with another woman and found the **** clip under the bed? Why must we assume the answer is daddy is having an affair? The correct answer to a true lib could have gone either way. I say it was a trick question.

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- wowjustwow
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:09pm
  YOU are the one who thought of it, so why are you blaming other people for potentially thinking of it??
  
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- Southerner01
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:18am
  I would have told my kid that the maid lost her **** clip while she was vacuuming the bedroom. Why does this have to involve sex?
  
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Uechi
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:12pm
Solution, private school with your values, another school not overrun by Marxist teachers or home school. If none of those are satisfactory vote with your feet!

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:12pm
Bet the answer was: It means heathers mommy was cheating on heathers other mommy.

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Cronpolis
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:11pm
Must have gone to liberalsRUS.gov to get that worksheet.

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John.Galt
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:09pm
The teachers are just trying to raise good little lib-tards, ones that will have sex, use birth control, get pregnant anyway, have abortions, and eventually sign up for govt help…. AND VOTE DEMONCRAP THE REST OF THEIR (SHORTENED) LIVES!

Yes, the liberal utopia is near… mass starvation and energy shortages! Millions starving! Paradise on earth!

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- Magyar
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Hope you’ve prepared—because you are right on. I’m AMAZED by how many think I’m crazy when I voice the same thing.
  
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- Don
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:03pm
  LOOK Yall this whole thing is only going to go so far. Sooner or later this whole anti-God anti-American thing is going to BLOW up in the libs faces. I hate to sound so mean but this is just the truth.
  Peace.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:09pm
The likes of Bill Ayers is behind this. Destroy the youth and you destroy the future of the country. If the public really understood what is happening they would lynch the people behind this, and dare law enforcement to even attempt to intervene. Next on the rope should be the media elite and their underlings.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:25pm
  Bill ayers asss is grass if ii ever see him in person. I would beat the living dog out of that pos. That’s a no brainer. He is no different than a child predator. No different. Not an ounce of difference. A pedophile. He teaches group pedophilia.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:04pm
  @Ghandi, I believe you may be referring to Jennings the “safe schools czar.” As reprehensible as Ayers is, I believe he likes full grown women. Jennings on the other hand is the homosexual pedophile that you seek.
  
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Just_Us2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:08pm
I guess zero tolerance is only for kids with pictures of guns. Teachers asking a 10yr old to describe an affair is wrong….but the teacher apologized…right? No such grace is given to students who make finger guns, draw pictures of guns or even hold a make believe gun. They are expelled….same should go for the teacher, zero tolerance for stupidity, for innocent mistakes, for not thinking something through. Expelled, no pay….and really, she should be gone.

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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:55pm
  very good post…
  
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tonypro
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:07pm
barry’s idea of hitlers youth.

Indoctrination yet once again at it’s finest, and since they got caught, now “” “We’d like to be done with it and move on.””

I say NO, they need to be held accountable for this crap. Maybe when parents start getting teachers fired for their propaganda machine, then at least some of them will think twice before doing it.

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The_Woofster
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:07pm
“Teachers” teaching the little mushy minds. Once they have the children in their grips, it’s all over.

Just as with the big bad guns, religion, homosexuality, man caused climate change, they push the agenda further and further. I feel sorry for parents today, that have to deal with this indoctrination.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:05pm
It isn’t part of the curriculum yet the school uses it? This is yet another example why the government shouldn’t be in the business of education. Public schools,the NEA and the dept.of education are worthless and really shouldn’t exist.

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- JacquesChirac
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:47pm
  And now the emperor wants to take over pre-school???
  
  Yes, Aldous Huxley, it’s a brave, new world!
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:05pm
It just means that Susie’s other mommy has been visiting and cleaning the carpets.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:04pm
What other material is being taught that they are so embarrassed they won’t name the source material?

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- Al J Zira
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:12pm
  I don’t know, but I’d like to hear. This sounds like a FOIA case, if you ask me.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:13pm
  The writings of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky.
  
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MDECKER
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:03pm
Parents shouldn’t concern themselves with what teachers are teaching their kids. Parents should stick to the script and just keep voting for liberalism.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:03pm
What good is a teacher that doesn’t even review what assignments they are giving to their students, I think they are being overpaid and to think the President wants to spend more money on education. I bet she was unionized and one that couldn’t be removed.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:02pm
Hey nothing new. O has been using children for years now.
He know that kids can be smart and is just trying to get input on how to explain the **** clip found in AF1

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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:02pm
This is intentional. Why do you think they want your kids in pre-school? They want to eliminate any concept they have of right/wrong or morality as young as possible to destroy family values.and influence.

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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:43pm
  I agree completely…universal pre-K is very scary. How can they sell this to people? Doesn’t anyone want to spend time with their kids anymore? This is patently un-PC, but honestly, why have them??
  
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- PFNW
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:57pm
  @ Prrrrplemtn Seriously? This was intentional? Cut the teacher some slack. She most likely was rushed and didn’t read the whole thing. Granted, this was a big mistake, but she did apologize. If this is a pattern, then she should suffer greater scrutiny.
  @ The Blaze. Have the mother fax you a copy of the assignment. The curriculum or website should be printed on the paper somewhere.
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:01pm
Maybe the mom and her friends were exchanging clothes and the **** clip fell out of her purse? Ok, I’m reaching on that one.
Maybe it belongs to uncle Doug – the one that never gets invited to Thangsgiving dinner?

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:10pm
  More likely WangDang the cleaning lady chasing dust bunnies again.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:44pm
  Maybe it belongs to the closeted Dad. Remember all lifestyle choices are correct.. except a good moral nuclear family.
  
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DZ-015
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:00pm
She declined to identify the internet site the assignment allegedly came from. Was this one of the teaching curricula which demands that all educators sign strict nondisclosure agreements to keep parents in the dark about what is being taught to their children?

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woodyee
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:00pm
Just keep on letting the schools abuse your children by letting them instill in your children, hoplophobia and all kinds of sexual deviancy.

Is that what you send your kids to school for?!?

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Fubared
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:59pm
Advert for home screweling again. Jesse Jackson version of schooling.

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