WSGC, a private school that costs $32,325 per year for grades 4-7 ($39,525 for international students), is being accused of using a highly inappropriate book to teach fifth-grade students about sex.
The book in question, “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, is marketed as being intended for children ages 10 and up. However, the content of the book is very mature and sexually explicit which has angered parents.
During the town hall meeting held at the school, one mother expressed her unease with this book being available to the young students, saying, “My concern is that when ideas are brought up in class repeatedly… it has a certain significance for the child and it’s now being inserted into the consciousness of the child.”
“By bringing it up in class, wow, my teacher is talking about this, I better pay attention,” the mother said.
“(Her) play has changed, (her) thoughts have changed, it’s changed who (she) was as a person, as a 10-year-old. When our children bring us something, it’s the time to introduce it, but if you’re forcing it… I don’t want my 10-year-old, her play, her thoughts to be different from who she is right now.”