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Texas woman pulls daughter, 13, out of school for being made to play 'seducing hooker' in classroom game

 

By Varnika Srivastava 

 

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March 19, 2023

 

Laura Maria Gruber said that her 13-year-old daughter was made to play a seducing hooker during a game at the KIPP Poder Academy in San Antonio, Texas

 

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: After learning that her 13-year-old daughter played a "seducing hooker" as part of a game in her seventh-grade classroom, a woman, who called herself a former "woke" liberal, pulled the teenager out of school. Laura Maria Gruber, 45, had enrolled her daughter in San Antonio's KIPP Poder Academy. According to the school's website, "diversity, equity, and inclusion" are celebrated.

In September 2022, Gruber withdrew her teenage daughter from the school after learning that the girl's teacher had organized a class game of "Bear-Hooker-Hunter," which was a more sophisticated version of rock-paper-scissors.

 

The KIPP Poder Academy in San Antonio claims to celebrate 'diversity, equity, and inclusion.'

 

A team building activity

Gruber, a native of Puerto Rico, alleged that her daughter and the other seventh-graders in the Social Emotional Learning class were paired up and they posed in front of the class. The teenagers were instructed to pretend to be one of three things, a "scary bear" with its paws up, a "hunter" with a gun pointed or a "seducing hooker" with a hand on each hip and another behind their ear. Although the game's precise objective is unknown, it was reportedly said to be some sort of "team-building" activity.

Gruber told Fox News, "I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school, and my daughter said, 'We played this game at school, Mom, and you're going to be upset.' When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car."

Seeking an apology fromt the teachers, Gruber said that the game sexualized the teenagers and mentioned that one of the girls in the class had experienced sexual assault and had been "triggered" by it. The boys and girls in the class were instructed to arrange themselves in ascending order of maturity, with some being tempted with candy to play along, even though her own daughter chose not to participate in the game, as per reports.

Gruber said, "The teacher was pretty young, so you can imagine what kind of people are coming out of universities now to teach our kids," adding, "My daughter was so grossed out and embarrassed. She said the boys and the teacher were laughing," per the Daily Mail. She spoke with KIPP administrators in San Antonio and Austin, and six months after she originally complained to school officials, she finally got an apology. Until the school board apologized, no one else had an inkling of what had happened.

School issues apology

KIPP acknowledged that the game fell short of their "bar of excellence" and was inappropriate for students. Even though the children had to pretend to be "seducing hookers," the school disputed the claim that the game sexualized minors. Stephanie Lee, the school's principal, acknowledged that the game was subpar even though it was never intended to be sexually explicit, per the DailyMail.