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

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The Raeths are also concerned about the teacher who oversees the writing course at Hudson High School. It's not something my other child ever mentioned because it was such a non-issue, non-part of the class,” said Raeth.

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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.

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. 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. In a prepared statement, Superintendent Phil Herman said the “inappropriate and offensive writing prompts” were part of a supplemental resource used in the high school senior-level College Credit Plus writing sections. Even so, given recent concerns presented by parents of students in this course, the District collected the books and discontinued their use.

Raeth has another daughter, Anja, who currently takes the CCP writing course at Hudson High School. Mayor Craig Shubert spoke up at the meeting and gave the 5-member School Board an ultimatum — resign or be charged. 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.” 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 Mayor called the book titled: 642 Things To Write About, which was given to students “child pornography.”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. It’s not clear whether the board can be held criminally liable for material that was being used in a class. 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. 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. 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.