SUPERINTENDENT APOLOGIZES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL WORKSHEET

Parents of students at Carter G. Woodson Middle School in Hopewell, Virginia, were not happy when their children in a Family & Consumer Sciences class were given a “Family Quiz” worksheet last Friday. The worksheet was about family relationships. Some of the questions were:
– “What do you call the father of your father?” (grandfather)
– “What do you call your mother’s sister?” (aunt)
– “What do you call the mother of your grandfather?” (great-grandfather)
But then came:
– “What do you call it when a married person has a relationship with someone else?” (an affair)
– “What do you call the much younger boyfriend of an older woman?” (boy-toy)
– “What do you call a married man’s girlfriend?” (mistress)
– “What do you call the much younger and beautiful wife of an older, wealthy man?” (trophy wife)
On Monday afternoon, the school’s superintendent Dr. Melody Hackney apologized, saying that the teacher had downloaded the worksheet from the Internet. The quiz, it appeared, was originally posted on a website meant for English as a Second Language teachers.
* “What do you call a teacher who cribs a worksheet from the internet instead of sticking with the curriculum?” Answer: A former teacher.
* Usually it’s the students who are too lazy to do their own work.
* Middle School is way too early for kids to learn lots of adults don’t take the whole “marriage vows” thing very seriously.
* At least no student called the younger boyfriend of an older woman “Ethan, from 5th period.”