Central Valley teacher gives x rated handout
What I want to know is why didn’t we have teachers like this when I went to school?
The Associated Press reports, “School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.
Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine Tree Elementary School were given the spelling packet at an open house.
Administrators said the teacher did not use the font intentionally.
Monroe is about 45 miles northwest of New York City.”
There were several mentions about this in Tuesday’s news – but the best was the original news article by Kristina Wells in the Times Herald-Record: “Central Valley teacher gives x-rated handout - Sexy script was mistake.”
Her editors certainly gave her some artistic leeway when she began her article:
“Central Valley — "E" is for embarrassed — like the teacher who inadvertently used a kinky alphabet in a handout to parents.
"C" is for the calls alerting school officials to the sexy script. And "A" is for the apology that followed.
A veteran teacher used the font — depicting quasi-anatomically correct male and female stick figures contorting into letters of the alphabet — on the cover sheet of a spelling curriculum given to parents at a Pine Tree Elementary open house last week.
Think Kama Sutra meets Sesame Street.
But at first glance, it's difficult to make out the salaciousness of the type font.
Sources said the teacher had no idea the alphabet was offensive when she downloaded the font from the Internet. It's unclear if any disciplinary action has been or will be taken against the teacher, who sources said has been with the district for many years.”
Read the rest of her article here, hopefully they use permalinks…
The article is short and well worth the time. Hat’s off to her editor for letting her write it in the funny manner.
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