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A Connecticut school under fire for sending eighth-graders an assignment asking them to compare their favorite and least favorite pizza toppings to their sexual preferences is now calling it a 'mistake.'

 

The students at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield recently received the 'Pizza and Consent' assignment, which asked students to compare their favorite pizza toppings to their favorite sex acts.

 

'We can use pizza as a metaphor for sex,' the assignment says, explaining: 'When you order pizza with your friends, everyone checks in about each other's preferences, right?… The same goes with sex.'

 

It then provides the children with a section to list their favorite pizza toppings and their favorite sex acts, saying: 'Here are some examples: Likes: Cheese = kissing, dislikes: Olives = Giving oral.'

 

Once the metaphor was complete, the eighth-graders were also asked to 'draw and color your favorite type of pizza. What's your favorite style of pizza? Your favorite toppings? What are your pizza no-nos? Now mirror these preferences in relation to sex.'

 

And 'for those of y'all who don't like pizza or sex at all, feel free to draw out another food favorite, or include non-sexual activities.'

 

The assignment was quickly deleted from the Enfield School District's website, according to FOX News, and now district officials are saying it was sent out 'by mistake.'

 

 

One woman, only identified as 'Amanda,' posted a video to YouTube saying that if the Board of Education meeting on January 27 was held in-person, she would have asked: 'Since when has it become acceptable for a teacher to ask a student what their sexual wants, desires and boundaries are?'

 

Others spoke out at another board meeting on Tuesday, with Jonathan Grande saying: 'The assignment was crude, it lacked good taste,' and Tracy Jarvis saying it 'is prompting kids to become sexually active before their time.

 

'Youth don't even know how to navigate platonic relationships, so why introduce sexual relationships?'

 

'We should not be encouraging youth to explore each other's bodies with multiple partners in an open environment for any reason,' she continued. 'If somebody is doing that or asking them to do that they should tell a responsible adult, who then reports it.

 

'I understand we need to teach kids boundaries,' Jarvis said. 'But you are giving them way more information than they are psychologically ready to handle at this ag.

 

'By doing this, you open up doors for them to have partners that are older than them, increasing statutory situations,' she claimed.

 

'This has gone too far,' she said, adding parents 'will fight for the purity and protection of our children.'

 

But school officials have said the assignment was sent out to middle school students in error, and even parents acknowledge that after it was published, the district's Health and Physical Education Coordinator emailed parents and apologized.

 

'The incorrect version, as opposed to the revised version of this assignment was mistakenly posted on our Grade 8 curriculum page, and was inadvertently used for instruction to Grade 8 Health classes,' Brie Quartin wrote, according to Parents Defending Education.

 

'I caught the error after our curriculum revision in June, but failed to post the intended version. I own that, and apologize for the error.'

 

 

She went on to explain that the 'correct version' of the assignment would have students work in small groups 'to craft a pizza with toppings that would make everyone happy/comfortable using nonverbal communication only.'

 

The students would then be asked to 'reflect and discuss how thoughts or feelings can be confusing or misconstrued if we rely on nonverbal cues/communication alone.'

 

And at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Superintendent Christopher Drezek again told parents it was 'inadvertently' sent out to the eighth-grad students.

 

'The truth was it was a simple mistake,' he said, according to FOX News. 'And I know that there are some who may not believe that. I know there are some who don't necessarily maybe want that answer.

 

'In this particular case, I didn't even get a chance,' he said, 'because the person who made the mistake jumped ahead of it before I was even notified that it had happened.'

 

Drezek then agreed with parents that the content was 'inappropriate,' but claimed there was no 'hidden agenda.

 

'There was no secret cabal to indoctrinate kids on something,' he said. 'They sent the wrong document. And I'm not going to perpetuate this story any longer on their behalf.

 

'So that's what happened, and none of us are happy that it happened,' Drezek told parents, noting: 'No one feels worse that it happened than the person that did it.'