A high school teacher in Union City was placed on administrative leave after assigning reading material that some parents deemed sexually explicit and inappropriate, according to the school district superintendent.
New Haven Unified School District Superintendent John Thompson said the district learned of the incident involving a teacher at James Logan High School on Oct. 6.
Thompson said the teacher had given out an assignment that included reading a passage that described a scene where girls were watching a man masturbating in a shower."As Superintendent, I was just as outraged as our parents when I learned about the particular reading selection that was assigned to our students.
After further investigation, the district learned the reading passage was from the book Chicana FalsaThompson said the reading material was "neither age nor content appropriate for high school students. This book was teacher-selected supplemental material and was not approved for use in classrooms in the New Haven Unified School District through our curriculum approval process.
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