Texas mother says her 13-year-old daughter performed a ‘seducing hooker’ throughout classroom recreation

Texas mother Laura Maria Gruber always considered herself a “woke” liberal in favor of progressive causes, even sending her youthful daughter to a structure college that celebrates “diversity, equity and inclusion,” in keeping with the varsity’s web site on-line.

But she on no account thought her 13-year-old could be requested to play a “seducing hooker” in a bizarre classroom recreation.

“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,’” Gruber suggested The Post Saturday from her residence in San Antonio.

“When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car.”

The September incident was so disturbing, Gruber talked about, she pulled her daughter from the varsity and demanded an apology from administrators.

Gruber, 45, a Latina from Puerto Rico, stumbled on the game was often known as “Bear-Hooker-Hunter” and went on-line, discovering it’s an grownup consuming recreation mannequin of rock-paper-scissors.

As a a part of the game, Gruber talked about her daughter and the other seventh graders inside the Social Emotional Learning class at KIPP Poder Academy wanted to pair up and stand inside the entrance of the room.

The youngsters have been then suggested to strike poses — each as a hunter, pointing an imaginary gun at each other; as a scary bear with its paws up, or as a “seducing hooker,” with a hand on one hip and one different behind their ear, the distraught mother talked about.

The goal of the game was unclear except for being some sort of “team building” practice, talked about Gruber, who felt the game sexualized the kids.

The ladies and boys have been organized from youngest to oldest, with some allegedly bribed with candy to get them to play alongside, the daughter suggested the mother.

“The teacher was pretty young, so you can imagine what kind of people are coming out of universities now to teach our kids,” Gruber talked about.

“My daughter was so grossed out and embarrassed,” she added. “She talked about the boys and the teacher have been laughing.

“Another little girl in the class had been sexually assaulted, so the experience was especially cringe for her.”

Gruber pulled her daughter out of the varsity each week later nonetheless was determined to lodge a protest with the varsity administrators, a laborious and aggravating course of, she talked about.

“I really feel like I’ve been had,” Gruber talked about. “I needed my toddler to go to this college for the range and trusted them. But I didn’t perceive it may include sexual selection and youngsters being sexualized.

“The worst part is that this school is in the inner city and San Antonio is well known as being a child sex trafficking hub.”

After just about six months of meeting with KIPP administrators in San Antonio and Austin, Gruber talked about she purchased an apology, of varieties, from the board.

School dad and mother didn’t discover out about Gruber’s criticism in regards to the recreation until the board issued the apology.

The response was too little, too late, Gruber talked about.

KIPP admitted the game occurred as described, in keeping with paperwork from the varsity seen by The Post.

Despite having youngsters pose as “seducing hookers,” 4 ranges of KIPP administration — School Principal Stephanie Lee, Deputy Superintendent Jeremy Gray, Regional Superintendent Allen Smith and KIPP Texas CEO Sehba Ali — denied the game sexualized kids.

“While we always chase excellence as a core value, sometimes we stumble,” Lee wrote in a Feb. 16 letter to highschool households.

The principal admitted, nonetheless, that the “game Bear-Hooker-Hunter….did not meet our bar of excellence.”

“This game was not part of any KIPP curriculum, and it was not appropriate for students,” she wrote. “Any activities with actions or words like ‘hooker’ or ‘seduce’ should never have a place in our schools. While the intent was never to sexualize a child, I recognize that the impact may have caused students to feel uncomfortable or traumatized. That does not honor the respect we aim to teach our students at all times; in truth, it is degrading.”

“The term ‘hooker’ is an unkind word and not one you should use or repeat,” the principal talked about inside the letter.

KIPP is known nationally for its progressive education inside the United States, and for providing an equitable education to Black, Latino and LGBTQIA kids. 

School administrators couldn’t be reached for comment.