{"id":1288651,"date":"2022-02-11T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288651"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:05:51","slug":"conn-school-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-give-pizza-sex-assignment-to-8th-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conn-school-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-give-pizza-sex-assignment-to-8th-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Conn. school says it was a \u2018mistake\u2019 to give Pizza-sex assignment to 8th-graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconn-school-says-it-was-a-mistake-to-give-pizza-sex-assignment-to-8th-graders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It reads like a guidebook to child molestation: Get children to talk about something children like and know about, and then \u2026 use that thing to get them talking about sex and their privates!<\/p>\n<p>Only in this case, it was being done by a school.<\/p>\n<p>Enfield Public Schools in Connecticut are under well-deserved scrutiny for a \u201cPizza and Consent\u201d assignment in which eighth-graders (13 and 14 years old) students were given a handout that described pizza as a \u201cmetaphor for sex,\u201d reports<\/p>\n<p>The assignment went on to instruct students to list their favorite \u2013 and least favorite \u2013 pizza toppings \u201cin relation to sex.\u201d \u201cHere are some examples: Likes: Cheese = Kissing,\u201d it reads. \u201cDislikes: Olives = Giving Oral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that you know this metaphor for sex, let\u2019s explore your preferences! Draw and color your favorite type of pizza. What\u2019s your favorite style of pizza? Your favorite toppings? What are your pizza no-nos? Now mirror these preferences in relation to sex!,\u201d the assignment states gleefully.<\/p>\n<p>The assignment has a section for \u201clikes\u201d and \u201cdislikes,\u201d where students can \u201cmirror\u201d their preferences for pizza toppings \u201cin relation to sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who created this assignment? Who is reading the answers? Are they matching students\u2019 names to the answers given? Are the compiled responses kept for further examination?<\/p>\n<p>The assignment was revealed Feb. 7 by Parents Defending Education.<\/p>\n<p>It was of course a \u201cmistake\u201d that was sent \u201cinadvertently\u201d to the eighth-graders, Enfield Public Schools Superintendent Christopher Drezek said during a school board meeting the following day, though it is difficult to imagine a \u201cmistake\u201d of such magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple truth was it was a mistake. And I know that there are some who may not believe that. I know there are some who don\u2019t necessarily maybe want that answer,\u201d Drezek said. \u201cIn this particular case, I didn\u2019t even get a chance to because the person who made the mistake jumped ahead of it before I was even notified that it had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drezek admitted that the content in the assignment was \u201cinappropriate,\u201d which seems a mild term, and insisted that there\u2019s no \u201chidden agenda\u201d in trying to trick 13-year-olds into discussing their knowledge and preferences about sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reads like a guidebook to child molestation: Get children to talk about something children like and know about, and then \u2026 use that thing to get them talking about sex and their privates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}