642 Things to Write About: (Guided Journal, Creative Writing, Writing Prompt Journal)

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News 5 reached out to the Hudson School Board to get their response to the calls for resignation from the mayor and other parents. The district immediately determined this writing resource should not be in the hands of our students, and on Monday, collected the books from the students enrolled in the course,” Herman said. “It is important to note that at no time were any of these inappropriate writing prompts assigned as part of the class.” You have a dream that you’ve murdered someone. Who is it, how and why did the murder happen, and what happens afterward? The book went unnoticed for years until some parents and administrators discovered the prompts inside Friday. It’s not clear whether the board can be held criminally liable for material that was being used in a class.

The Mayor called the book titled: 642 Things To Write About, which was given to students “child pornography.” It is a college-level course and kids need to have a certain level of maturity to handle that. And I think parents also need to have a certain level of maturity to let their children handle that because once you get to college, you're not involved in their curriculum,” said Raeth.

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The teacher is wonderful and it seems like the teacher is being vilified a little bit too, and accused of grooming,” said Erika Raeth. The book titled ‘642 Things to Write About’ contains writing prompts with topics some consider to be inappropriate for high school students.

Even though Regan Raeth only graduated last year, she's already a second-semester junior at Kent State University. She was able to get those credits by taking the College Credit Plus and AP courses. We were warned about there being some explicit material. And she just said, ‘Don't use the prompts.’ And so none of us did. We all ignored it,” said Raeth.

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Write the ad for an expensive new drug that improves bad posture. Now, list the possible side effects. I've heard mention of, like, 'We shouldn't offer these classes at all.' So then then they're taking away an opportunity for these children to have college credit," said Raeth. Many of the prompts in the book were benign, such as describing the worst Thanksgiving dish you’ve ever had, but according to Cleveland.com, one of the parents of a student that received the material read out several of the prompts that are clearly not meant for high school students. Even so, given recent concerns presented by parents of students in this course, the District collected the books and discontinued their use. In its official capacity, the Board of Education will be ensuring that a thorough investigation and process review has taken place and will utilize the results of the investigation to determine any necessary actions to be taken.

It wasn’t a normal Board of Education meeting on Monday night in Hudson, Ohio. The entire Schol Board is on the hot seat after parents were horrified at the material given to students in a writing class. Want to improve your creative writing? Start with these TED-Ed Lessons: How to write fiction that comes alive, How fiction can change reality and How to build a fictional world. It's not something my other child ever mentioned because it was such a non-issue, non-part of the class,” said Raeth. Parents at the meeting said that these prompts are inappropriate for high school students. One parent said that he was “appalled” at the content and demanded cameras in the classrooms to allow parents to monitor what is being taught to their children. One parent called the prompts tantamount to “grooming.”At a banquet in Kazakhstan, you are greeted as a guest of honor and served the traditional sheep’s eyeball. Respectfully, you decline. You are then offered the sheep’s tongue, instead. What’s your excuse this time? BREAKING: Hudson mayor demands all school board members resign or face possible criminal charges over high school course material that he said a judge called "child pornography." You are a brand-new suicide-hotline counselor. Describe how you feel during the course of your first call.