642 Things to Write About: (Guided Journal, Creative Writing, Writing Prompt Journal)

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Raeth said her teacher only used the book a few times a week to help students get creative with their writing at the beginning of classes and they never used any of the more explicit prompts. You are a brand-new suicide-hotline counselor. Describe how you feel during the course of your first call.

And there is a huge push to fund “students instead of systems” and have your tax dollars follow your child rather than get dumped into the failing public school system. One of the biggest advocates of this is scholar Corey D’Angelis, the researcher at American Federation for Children. You can hear Corey talk about funding “students instead of systems” here. As a talking Chihuahua, what would you tell your humans about the new crying baby who now lives with you? Want to improve your creative writing? Start with these TED-Ed Lessons: How to write fiction that comes alive, How fiction can change reality and How to build a fictional world. It wasn’t a normal Board of Education meeting on Monday night in Hudson, Ohio. The entire Schol Board is on the hot seat after parents were horrified at the material given to students in a writing class.

The teacher is wonderful and it seems like the teacher is being vilified a little bit too, and accused of grooming,” said Erika Raeth. One prompt instructs the writer to drink a beer and then write about the taste. Another said, “Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom.” News 5 reached out to the Hudson School Board to get their response to the calls for resignation from the mayor and other parents.

While emphasizing he is not familiar with the Hudson Board of Education’s process to approve curriculum, Lusher said school boards typically have a process where curriculum is reviewed by committees before it comes before the board for its approval. He said he believes it’s “unlikely that something would get to them that is of such moral turpitude that it would bring criminal charges.” The district immediately determined this writing resource should not be in the hands of our students, and on Monday, collected the books from the students enrolled in the course,” Herman said. “It is important to note that at no time were any of these inappropriate writing prompts assigned as part of the class.” Nor has it fazed other parents of kids in the class who she said have spoken out in defense of the book’s use on social media. We’ve never heard of criminal charges [filed against a school board] for curriculum,” said Ralph Lusher, staff attorney with the Ohio School Boards Association.I trust my kids. I know they're mature enough to handle that. They probably see worse things on TikTok on a daily basis," said Raeth. We were warned about there being some explicit material. And she just said, ‘Don't use the prompts.’ And so none of us did. We all ignored it,” said Raeth. The Raeth family plans to attend the next school board meeting and share their perspective about the book being used in class. Parents at the meeting said that these prompts are inappropriate for high school students. One parent said that he was “appalled” at the content and demanded cameras in the classrooms to allow parents to monitor what is being taught to their children. One parent called the prompts tantamount to “grooming.”

Even though Regan Raeth only graduated last year, she's already a second-semester junior at Kent State University. She was able to get those credits by taking the College Credit Plus and AP courses. It's not something my other child ever mentioned because it was such a non-issue, non-part of the class,” said Raeth. You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward?Parents were outraged over a book of writing prompts given to high school students taking a college credit course called “Writing in the Liberal Arts II.” I absolutely adore this teacher. She is a wonderful, caring person who really cares about the state of the kids," said Regan Raeth. “People are just making up scenarios to get upset about. And it could potentially cost a lot of people their jobs or their livelihood, which is upsetting." Parents deserve choice, not a one-size-fits-all education system that includes B.S. material that doesn’t actually educate students.