Californian parents are outraged after a school's eighth graders were forced to publicly indicate how far they would be prepared to go sexually, The Daily Caller reported.
The incident happened this week at Woodland Park Middle School in the San Diego, Calif. suburb of San Marcos, reported local ABC affiliate KGTV.
After a teacher instructed all of her students to stand under one of several signs labeled with a different phrase, an embarrassed 14-year-old daughter complained the incident to her parents.
Some of the labeled signs were innocuous, according to KGTV, including phrases such as "smiled at," "hugged" and "kissed."
Other signs, such as "above the waist," "below the waist" and "all the way," were to varying degrees considerably less innocuous, TDC reported.
"To put them up in front of their friends to be humiliated or to be asked questions that I believe are personal, it's really none of the school's business," one of the peeved parents told the ABC station.
Her daughter had felt confused and peer-pressured afterward, the parent added.
Claiming the class to be a dating lesson, the exercise was defended by officials at the taxpayer-funded school.
"The parents sign permission slips for the class and can look at the curriculum prior," the Woodland Park Middle School told KGTV. "The purpose of the lesson was to open the lines of communication between parents and students about dating expectations."
However, it is being questioned how communication lines between eighth graders and their parents would be opened by students standing under signs labeled "above the waist" or "all the way."
The lesson was initially picked up from a community clinic and has been used for several years by the school, the principal, Brian Randall, said, according to the middle school's website.
An anonymous student survey could have been less humiliating for students, the parents added.
