Christian News Network — A middle school teacher in Florida has been fired for issuing a survey/exercise to students that asked them about their comfort level in situations surrounding matters of gender, sexuality, religion and race.
Daryl Cox had left her students at Fox Chapel Middle School in Spring Hill a photocopied assignment from the book “Exploring White Privilege” by Robert Amico, which includes a survey in the appendix called “How Comfortable Am I?”
Those who complete the survey are asked to choose from “not comfortable at all,” “uneasy,” “fairly comfortable” and “completely comfortable” for each hypothetical scenario.
Among the 41 situations presented were:
“You discover that the cute young man/woman that you are attracted to is actually a woman/man.”
“You discover your teenage brother kissing a male friend.”
“Your sister becomes a Buddhist.”
“Your new roommate is Palestinian and Muslim.”
“The AG president in your area/hall is putting herself through school by exotic dancing.”
“Your family buys a home in a predominantly black neighborhood.”
However, some of the students became concerned about the content of the survey, which was intended to be used with college students. Sixth grader Tori Drews told WFTS-TV that Cox had second thoughts about the assignment after some complained.
“There were children that were saying, ‘This is wrong. Why are we doing this? Does this have a reason?’” Drews recalled. “She was going, ‘Yeah, this is kind of wrong. Maybe I should take it back.’”
Drews said that some students asked if they could show the survey to their parents, but Cox didn’t want them to do so as she would just nix the assignment. But parents did learn of the exercise and believed that the questions were inappropriate for 12 and 13-year-old children.
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