A Texas mom is outraged after her daughter was allegedly asked by her teacher to participate in a
“team building”
game that required her to act like a
“seducing hooker,”
NY Post reported.
Laura Maria Gruber said her daughter, who attended KIPP Poder academy a charter school in Texas, came home with the disturbing news.
“I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school and my daughter said ‘We played this game at school, Mom, and you’re going to be upset’…When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car,”
Gruber told The Post.
The game,
“Bear-Hooker-Hunter”
is apparently an adult drinking game version of rock-paper-scissors and was reportedly played as a
“team building”
exercise. The seventh grade Social Emotional Learning class allegedly had the students stand in front of the classroom and pretend to be a hunter, pointing an imaginary gun, a scary bear with its paws up, or a
“seducing hooker,”
reports reveal.
Gruber said her daughter opted out of playing the game but other students were allegedly bribed with candy for them to join in, the daughter told her mom. Gruber, angered by the incident, pulled her daughter out of the school and demanded answers from administrators.
“I wanted my child to go to this school for the diversity and trusted them. But I didn’t realize it would involve sexual diversity and kids being sexualized.”
School Principal Stephanie Lee admitted that the game was instructed but denied that it had anything to do with sexualizing children.
“This game was not part of any KIPP curriculum, and it was not appropriate for students,”
she wrote.
“Any activities with actions or words like ‘hooker’ or ‘seduce’ should never have a place in our schools. While the intent was never to sexualize a child, I recognize that the impact may have caused students to feel uncomfortable or traumatized. That does not honor the respect we aim to teach our students at all times; in truth, it is degrading.”
#Clique, what are your thoughts?
