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

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The teacher is wonderful and it seems like the teacher is being vilified a little bit too, and accused of grooming,” said Erika Raeth. You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward? Now, with Hudson’s mayor and other parents calling for the board to resign or face criminal charges, the Raeth family thinks this has all gone too far. Having not seen the book that was used in the writing class at Hudson High School, Lusher said he wouldn’t want to judge whether the material “would cross a line or not.” Parents need to continue to pressure school boards to actually educate students and call them out when they get things wrong, just as they’re doing in Hudson, Ohio, right now.

It's not something my other child ever mentioned because it was such a non-issue, non-part of the class,” said Raeth. 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." We did not exercise due diligence when we reviewed this resource, and as a result, we overlooked several writing prompts among the 642 that are not appropriate for our high school audience,” said Wilch. “…We feel terrible. At no time were any of these inappropriate prompts selected or discussed, but still, they were there, and they were viewable, and you can’t unsee them.” Ans: The first wish is..give me magical powers that I can spread peace in the world by destroying the evil,like superman or Spider-Man Mayor Craig Shubert spoke up at the meeting and gave the 5-member School Board an ultimatum — resign or be charged.

At a banquet in Kazakhstan, you are greeted as a guest of honor and served the traditional sheep’s eyeball. Respectfully, you decline. You are then offered the sheep’s tongue, instead. What’s your excuse this time? Mayor Demands All School Board Members RESIGN Or Be CHARGED After Outrage Over Text Book School Book: 642 Things To Write About Encouraged Students To Write About Sex, Drinking, And Murder. BREAKING: Hudson mayor demands all school board members resign or face possible criminal charges over high school course material that he said a judge called "child pornography."

Brian Wilch, a high school Principal, said that the course is offered in association with Hiram College for college-level credit, but it is taught in the high school. Wilch said that the material wasn’t properly vetted for high school students. The book went unnoticed for years until some parents and administrators discovered the prompts inside Friday.

If there’s one positive that can be attributed to the pandemic school closures, it’s that the “virtual learning” allowed parents to see what exactly was being taught to their kids. Public school enrollment dropped during the pandemic, and homeschooling has increased dramatically despite remaining a steady 3.3% of students since 2012. 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. Many of the prompts in the book were benign, such as describing the worst Thanksgiving dish you’ve ever had, but according to Cleveland.com, one of the parents of a student that received the material read out several of the prompts that are clearly not meant for high school students. The Raeths are also concerned about the teacher who oversees the writing course at Hudson High School. 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.”

It’s not clear whether the board can be held criminally liable for material that was being used in a 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.”

The Raeth family plans to attend the next school board meeting and share their perspective about the book being used in class.