<p>What do you all make of this?</p>
<p>[Quiz</a> laced with sexual innuendos given to high school students](<a href=“http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_n_palm_beach_county/palm_beach_gardens/quiz-laced-with-sexual-innuendos-given-to-high-school-students]Quiz”>http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_n_palm_beach_county/palm_beach_gardens/quiz-laced-with-sexual-innuendos-given-to-high-school-students)</p>
<p>isn’t nearly everything that teenagers think of, have sexual overtones?
At least its inneuendo rather than explicit as it is on TV.</p>
<p>It’s not as funny as its author thinks it is.</p>
<p>And I doubt that any of the kids were shocked. </p>
<p>Still, it’s not a good idea for teachers to hand out stuff like this. It makes it more difficult for them to maintain their position as authority figures if they’re distributing stuff that more appropriately would be passed around from student to student via the Internet.</p>
<p>Reading the quiz, my first reaction was to wonder what on Earth it’s supposed to be getting at. It would be interesting to hear the teacher’s reasoning, but it doesn’t sound like that will happen. The parents comments sound like they just have their heads in the sand regarding what their kids hear/talk about every day at school.</p>
<p>This sounds like something that might get passed around at a bachelorette party or a bachelor party…not in a high school.</p>
<p>Some context. This is an AP Psychology class at a school in my district. Up until last year, only juniors and seniors were allowed to take the class. The quiz was handed out during the teaching of Freud. I personally think the quiz is pretty tame compared to the music lyrics, movies and TV shows these kids are exposed to on a daily basis. And I think that if a kid isn’t mature enough to handle this, they probably shouldn’t be taking AP level courses in the first place. Is it necessary to teach the course? No. Is it out of line? I’m not sure.</p>
<p>@LongPrime, where is a like button when I need one!</p>
<p>This quiz would have made me very uncomfortable. We did kind of a funny quiz when we studied freud in AP psych too, which would have been four years ago now for me, but it wasn’t this blatant. If I’d had an opposite sex teacher I’d have been completely mortified. While kids my age may talk about these kinds of things to each other, I think most of us are capable of discerning what is appropriate when you’re with your friends and peers versus when you are in class or work. My friends and I may have been pretty vulgar when we were on our own but we wouldn’t have brought that kind of language to class with us to use with our instructor. That would just be creepy and disrespectful, which is exactly what I think this is. </p>
<p>And I really just don’t think people in a position of authority should be forcing that kind of language and innuendo. It’d be uncomfortable if this were your boss at work, it’s just as uncomfortable if not moreso when it’s your teacher.</p>
<p>^^^^^Well said Emaheevu107. How about a little class in the classroom for heaven sakes.</p>
<p>This can get creepy, especially since some faculty (at least in the school I & my sibs attended) sometimes date STUDENTS! It’s not appropriate, even if it’s something the kids may do with one another or at a shower or raunchy young adult party. Another care of lapsed/poor judgment by a teacher.</p>
<p>Haha, I’ve debated against students from this school, when I lived in Florida.</p>
<p>The mother quoted, while it’s understandable that she’s upset, really shouldn’t display her knowledge of what’s on porn websites…</p>
<p>In all seriousness, this is inappropriate. It might be better as a funny email people send to friends, but this is inappropriate for a class. This could have been done better, but the terminology on the quiz doesn’t even accurately describe the objects that are the “answers” half the time. I don’t feel good when I blow my nose and I haven’t heard a beak referred to as “a little pecker.” The Titanic one was just vulgar and insulting; turning the tragic deaths of so many people into a bad dirty joke.</p>
<p>If I received this from a teacher, I’d think it was weird. There is no way a male teacher should have given this to female students. Like it or not (not), there is a big difference in how society treats male teachers with female students, as opposed to female teachers with male students.</p>
<p>IMHO, this would not be appropriate for ANY teacher to give to ANY student, regardless of genders involved. It is meant to provoke – I would be very upset with this as a quiz. Would probably not forward it either–not my idea of good taste. If kids choose to listen to suggestive lyrics and rap, that’s very different than for a person in authority to give them something as suggestive as this “quiz,” even if they did study Freud in AP Psych.</p>
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<p>I know, it’s not clear, I’m sure, definitely not, I think I’ll maybe or not make up my mind.</p>
<p>There’s also a difference between a high school class and a college class, despite what the AP people would have you think.</p>
<p>In a high school class, there’s more immaturity amongst the students and more rules for the teachers. Similar to how elementary school students aren’t told that the “Pilgrims” came over and slaughtered the “Indians” to steal their food and land (and you get in trouble for telling THE TRUTH to other students), high school students are also treated differently than college students.</p>
<p>I’ve taken a couple AP classes and I’ve taken 26 college classes at a local state college (dual enrollment, but on a college campus with college professors and everyone else in the class is a college student); to say they’re the same is laughable. Even how the instructors are treated is totally different, as I’m sure everyone else here knows; one is bound by a specific curriculum and to teach to specific standardized tests, while also having behavioral restrictions, while the other is allowed more freedom; this quiz would be less of a problem in a college class with college students. Hell, I had an AP teacher get yelled at by parents for calling some students who refused to do work “bozos,” yet my American Government professor is allowed to scream “I’M GOING TO SEVER YOUR MOTHER(redacted)ING HEAD OFF!” at students to demonstrate unprotected speech. It’s just a different world.</p>
<p>So while an AP Psychology teacher might want to give his students a good understanding of Freud, he needs to remember who is audience is. Yes, there may be pressure on him that this is the last psychology class most of the students will take (a downside to AP being that weaker high school classes are substituted for full college courses), but it doesn’t mean he should treat them like adults, because they aren’t.</p>
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Reminds me of the day I was disappointed to find that Caroline Kennedy did not inherit the eloquence of her father. Like, you know?</p>
<p>I only got two wrong- I didn’t know the chewing gum or the bird.</p>
<p>I think it s pretty wierd for teacher to give students- Id be interested to hear his rationale.
I suspect a teacher who did that would be lacking in social awareness- not the sort you want teaching health.</p>
<p>I think you guys are missing the point. It’s AP Psychology. </p>
<p>All the questions have to do with PRECONDITIONING. </p>
<p>Also my biochemistry professor is far worse and he gets away with it because he actually teaches effectively.</p>
<p>^^^
I think most of us get the point. Regardless of the validity of the concept being taught, this is an inappropriate way to deliver the lesson…to any age group. Why? Because it is designed to be titillating and provocative. I think this teacher must be a moron or driven by an ulterior motive that he finds difficult to control. If his objective is to TEACH, he will find a way to do that without causing his students discomfort and embarrassment.</p>
<p>It is kinda bad… Kids minds are already on that stuff, let’s not lead them to it.</p>
<p>Grossly inappropriate.</p>
<p>I don’t really think it is that bad- it reminds me of the joke for 7 year olds-
" What starts with F and ends with UCK?"</p>
<p> Firetruck</p>
<p>Kinda dumb, not presented in a way that is going to win the teacher points</p>
<p>No, the test is to demonstrate sexual tension. Realistically, I see no issue with it at all. Should a student not be feeling it, then he or she would be more than able to answer the G-rated solutions. In my opinion, having those solutions instantly makes this quiz appropriate, and it’s the students’ issue if they think of these other answers. Yes, I read the quiz, and I didn’t get the “correct” answers, but that’s the intent. However, if you’ve got 0.0000000000001%> then you’ll prolly have more success with it than I did.</p>
<p>However, I see no issue that the teacher did in this situation. It serves to teach a lesson.</p>