2nd graders were given an assignment to send their teacher a picture of them reading in bathtub.

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Victory Christian Academy 2nd graders were given an assignment to send their teacher a picture of them reading in the bathtub. When parents addressed it, and filed a police report, the school kicked out one of the concerned children who was uncomfortable with the assignment.
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11:21 AM · Sep 25, 2022

WTF? Where are all the past pictures of naked kids?

And they want to get rid of public schools so kids are subjected to religious indoctrination on top of everything else.

[Blue Owl]

1. Sounds fucked up to me

[patphil]

20. My sentiment exactly.

[Jack the Greater]

35. "She did send the message saying you should be in pajamas, be in your uniform, have fun with it...

... But it didn't sit right." ~Mother of the little girl who was kicked out of the school.

Still weird.

[milestogo]

2. I was a student for many years, but I never did homework in the bathtub.

Do they have waterproof books now? Do children take baths without taking their clothes off?

[Retrograde]

25. Many people read in the bath

I process donations for our local library: we get a fair number of books that look like they've been read in the bath.

BTW, while I do read in the bath I've never done homework there!

[milestogo]

26. Now days most homework is done on a computer.

As an IT professional, I advise you not to use your computer in the bathtub.

[Retrograde]

30. Bonus lesson on electical conductance!

People used to come up with elaborate schemes to write in the bath (see Marat during the French Revolution - but that didn't work out for other reasons). I suppose one could figure out a way to waterproof a computer (I know people who claim to use their ebook readers in the bath by sealing them in a plastic bag) but it's just as easy to do your homework on the table or sprawled on the floor!

I'm more amazed that kids still do homework these days.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Adults may read in the bathtub, but children don't usually do this.

Requires some motor skills and coordination so the books don't end up soaked.

[milestogo]

31. You can get a bathtub tray but

in my case it would be very expensive.

Everything would get wet.

[Irish_Dem]

33. Exactly, totally unsuitable for 7 or 8 yr olds.

[exboyfil]

36. I was reading in the bathtub when I was in the 3rd grade

My dad did it for his entire life. I stopped when I stopped taking baths (got too fat). Now that I have lost 115 pounds I might just go back to doing it (at least magazines).

[Irish_Dem]

37. But I bet you didn't send nude pictures of yourself in the tub to your teacher.

[exboyfil]

38. No

I don't think Mr. Van (my great sixth grade teacher who encouraged me to read and experience things) was into that. He just wanted my reading log - didn't want any other details.

[Irish_Dem]

39. Exactly, a teacher can ask for a reading log. But not nude pictures.

[LiberalFighter]

42. That is not the same thing.

Does the library also ask you to send a photo of you reading in the bathtub?

[OhZone]

3. Oh Geez. Is this real?

Sounds too crazy.

Wait. What am I saying?

Things in the US are too cray for Ozzie Osbourne so -

BTW - Ozzie is one of my nicknames. HA

[Me.]

4. Boy This Is So Wrong On So Many Levels

and by send, do they mean over the internet?

[Meadowoak]

5. DeSatan should be proud.

[Blue Owl]

21. I bet Matt Gaetz just put a visit to that school on his calendar

[Sky Jewels]

6. JFC (pun intended)

Even when I was a small child, all church-y and Christian-ish stuff gave me the creeps. As far back as I can remember, everything about organized religion felt weird and "off" to me -- the death cult imagery like Jesus on the cross, the off-putting musty smell of the actual church buildings, the "I'm brainwashed" feeling that many very religious people radiated, etc. And, as I've aged, that feeling has only gotten stronger.

[Skittles]

7. same

it is pure GROOMING

[Sky Jewels]

11. Yes indeed.

And the RCC is probably the world champion of grooming.

[Demobrat]

8. I wonder what the school's response would be

if the kids sent pictures of themselves sitting in the bathtub and reading fully dressed.

[Srkdqltr]

16. I'd have my kid fully dressed surrounded by all his/ her books and toys.

[Demobrat]

22. That's the exact same visual I had in my head.

Not what the school had in mind, I suspect.

[Wishful-Thinking]

9. And they have the nerve...

To accuse dems of pedophilia for teaching diversity in schools….defund the school!

[Ocelot II]

10. That's pretty skeevy. And they claim liberals are groomers?

[Hortensis]

12. Poisoned attitudes are like a disease, spread everywhere. They've

apparently been doing this for years as a fun and innocent activity overseen by participating parents of course. But, also of course, in this era when child-trafficking pederasts have infiltrated positions of authority everywhere...

There is an ironic side, though, in that this happened (if I have the right school!) to a private Christian school operated as a Baptist church ministry. Or not at all ironic, more of an "eventually inevitable."

[brush]

13. If the teacher is still teaching there with no...

consequences, we've entered into upside down, bizarro world. It's suggested to the student's parents that the student should be withdrawn instead of the teacher who requested the bathtub photo of students. I'm sorry that strongly brings pedophilia to mind.

[demmiblue]

14. Wow... that is messed up.

[paleotn]

15. In the first place, sending your kids to fundigelical school is child abuse.

And they're surprised that fundigelical teachers lean towards the creepy type? Say it ain't so!

[TygrBright]

17. More weird shit white people do. n/t

[Demovictory9]

18. Weird

[oregonjen]

19. That is disgusting! And they want to ban books.

[Emile]

23. Sick teacher, sick Christian school. School needs to be shut down

before it gets even sicker.

[jmowreader]

24. Haven't people been investigated for child porn for making pictures like that?

This makes me wonder: if the parents of the students somehow cross the school badly enough, will the school just surreptitiously slip the photos of their naked kids to the police?

[Irish_Dem]

28. Giving the pics to the police is the least of their problems.

Where did this pics end up?
On the internet?
Sold to sexual offenders?
Teachers share the pics like baseball cards?

[Irish_Dem]

27. Totally inappropriate for a teacher to ask students to submit nude bathtub pictures to the school.

I think the police should look into this.

[NowISeetheLight]

32. Grooming?

Is this Christian “Grooming”? Where is the outrage from the Republicans? You can bet if this was a gay teacher at a public school Faux News would be throwing a fit.

[Initech]

40. That just seems pretty fucking creepy.

[pnwmom]

41. Everyone in the class should have kept all their clothes on and taken a photo

of them reading inside a dry bathtub.

Then let the school try to explain why that they should have taken a naked picture instead.

[bluboid]

43. oh, I hope this blows sky high... please, please, please.

[Warpy]

44. The link is down

so I wonder what the hell it was like. Maybe enlighten us.

I know when I was seven, I didn't like getting wet unless it was puddles or a swimming pool.

Besides, I'd been reading since I was 3 and I loved books and would never have risked getting them wet.

My picture would have been fully dressed, sitting in a dry bathtub with the open book in front of me.

It was a bizarre assignment, though. Southern Christians have always been a little strange. Now they're getting intensely weird.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

45. Naturally, they claim to be "Christian". 2/3 of the parents should pull their children out of there.

There always seems to be 1/3 who will believe any crazy shit fed to them under the guise of religion.

[EnergizedLib]

46. A Florida Christian school

Who are the real predators again? This seems a lot more threatening to kids than letting them know gays exist.

[Lancero]

47. Christian Conservatives go on and on about school teachers being groomers...

And then they swing around and do something like this.

As always, they have a habit of projecting.