Teacher assigns students to take selfies with parents’ sex toys
A California teacher is under fire from all corners after a bizarre homework assignment: go home and take selfies. But not just any selfies. This teacher assigned the students to take selfies with parents’ sex toys.
It’s not immediately clear why. The assignment didn’t appear to have anything to do with any of the material the students were studying in class; according to the New York Daily News, the selfies were for extra credit. And at least one student completed the task.
Said Kimberly Cobene, whose daughter is in the class, “(The teacher) used that as an example of what it should look like for the other students.”
Students in the class at Encinal High School were directed to go through drawers and take selfies with parents’ sex toys, condoms, or any other private items that the parents were keeping hidden. “It was to go into your parents’ private drawers,” said Cobene, “or whatever to seek out sexual toys or condoms, or anything of that nature and to take a selfie with it.”
When students in the class spoke of the unorthodox request, their parents complained to the school district, which began an investigation. Until that investigation is complete, though, the teacher’s name has been kept secret, and the teacher also remains both employed and in the classroom.
Another mother, Evangeline Garcia, expressed frustration with the district’s inaction, telling reporters “We don’t feel comfortable with our children in his presence. All they could tell us is that, ‘Oh, this is an HR issue. It’s being investigated.’ They are not at liberty to tell me anything other than that. It’s kinda been the runaround.”
Apparently the issue in question is whether the teacher at first meant for the assignment to be a joke; and then, when one student did bring in a sex toy selfie, why the teacher then held it up to the rest of the class as an example of proper “selfies with parents’ sex toys” methodology.
UPDATE: Well, that happened fast. Geometry teacher Wing-Wah Leung has been suspended, pending the results of the investigation.
(Photo credits: Selfie Stick; LeAnn Rimes via Twitter)
