One student got extra credit.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Parents of students at Encinal High School in Alameda, California, are demanding a teacher be fired after they claimed he offered his class extra credit if they found sex toys and condoms belonging to their parents and took selfies with them.
Kimberly Cobene and Evangeline Garcia told local news station KPIX that they found out about the sex toy selfie assignment from a counselor at an after-school program that both of their daughters attend.
Officials from the high school told the moms that the teacher was probably joking, but both moms say that one student who completed the task got extra credit for their work, according to The Root.
“If the kids took it as a joke, then why did one kid take it serious and actually did the extra credit work, and was shown as an example in class?†Garcia said to CBS San Francisco.
“From what I understand, a student actually did it, and [the teacher] used that as an example of what it should look like for the other students,” Cobene told KPIX.
When asked why the teacher was still teaching, Susan Davis of the Alameda Unified School District said, “I can’t give you details about that because it’s an ongoing investigation,†according to CBS.
“We don’t feel comfortable with our children in his presence. All they could tell us is that, ‘Oh, this is an HR issue. It’s being investigated.’ They are not at liberty to tell me anything other than that,” Garcia told KPIX. “It’s kind of been the runaround.”
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