In Connecticut, middle school students were given an assignment with sexually explicit language that prompted them to use pizza toppings as metaphors for sexual activities. The “Pizza as Consent” exercise was given to pupils at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield to learn about safe sex and how people should always obtain consent before performing various sexual activities.
Parents were outraged when they learned about the assignment, which asked students to pair their favorite pizza toppings with their favorite sex acts. The assignment was designed to get people talking about sex in a conversational way, so that they would be more likely to do it safely.
“We can use pizza as a metaphor for sex,” the assignment reads: “When you order pizza with your friends, everyone checks in about each other’s preferences, right?… The same goes with sex.”
Students were then advised on how to combine and alternate their favorite pizza toppings in order to express the sex acts they like and dislike. Students were given an example to assist them to get started.
“Here are some examples: Likes: Cheese = kissing, dislikes: Olives = Giving oral.”
When the children had finished selecting their pizza topping metaphors, they were then asked to go further with their project because they had been assigned to “draw and color your favorite type of pizza. What’s your favorite style of pizza? Your favorite toppings? What are your pizza no-nos? Now mirror these preferences in relation to sex.”
It added, “Obviously, you might not be able to list all of your wants, desires, and boundaries, but hopefully, you’ll start feeling more comfortable about discussing them.”
The assignment should be inclusive of everyone, even those eighth-graders who don’t like pizza, or sex at all. The assignment offered the following: “for those of y’all who don’t like pizza or sex at all, feel free to draw out another food favorite, or include non-sexual activities.”
The pizza consent project almost immediately received backlash from the community and was eventually deleted from the school website.
The district’s superintendent, Dr. Daniel Varela, told Fox News that the assignment was issued “by mistake.”
People were outraged when the school assigned a homework project that involved pizza and consent.
Amanda posted a YouTube video explaining how, had the school hosted their Board of Education meeting in person, she would have spoken out about her assignment.
“Since when has it become acceptable for a teacher to ask a student what their sexual wants, desires, and boundaries are?” Amanda said.
At the board meeting, Jonathan Grande stated: “The assignment was crude. It lacked good taste.”
Tracy Jarvis, a parent of one child, said the pizza assignment “is prompting kids to become sexually active before their time. Youth don’t even know how to navigate platonic relationships, so why introduce sexual relationships?”
Do you think this school’s pizza and sex act assignment was inappropriate?
