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

Texas mother Laura Maria Gruber all the time thought of herself a “woke” liberal in favor of progressive causes, even sending her younger daughter to a constitution faculty that celebrates “diversity, equity and inclusion,” in accordance with the college’s website online.

But she by no means thought her 13-year-old could be requested to play a “seducing hooker” in a weird 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 advised The Post Saturday from her dwelling 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 stated, she pulled her daughter from the college and demanded an apology from directors.

Gruber, 45, a Latina from Puerto Rico, discovered the sport was referred to as “Bear-Hooker-Hunter” and went on-line, discovering it’s an grownup ingesting recreation model of rock-paper-scissors.

As a part of the sport, Gruber stated her daughter and the opposite seventh graders within the Social Emotional Learning class at KIPP Poder Academy needed to pair up and stand within the entrance of the room.

The children have been then advised to strike poses — both as a hunter, pointing an imaginary gun at one another; as a scary bear with its paws up, or as a “seducing hooker,” with a hand on one hip and one other behind their ear, the distraught mother stated.

The purpose of the sport was unclear aside from being some type of “team building” train, stated Gruber, who felt the sport sexualized the youngsters.

The girls and boys have been organized from youngest to oldest, with some allegedly bribed with sweet to get them to play alongside, the daughter advised 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 stated.

“My daughter was so grossed out and embarrassed,” she added. “She stated the boys and the trainer 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 college per week later however was decided to lodge a protest with the college directors, a laborious and irritating course of, she stated.

“I really feel like I’ve been had,” Gruber stated. “I wished my baby to go to this faculty for the range and trusted them. But I didn’t understand it might contain sexual variety 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 virtually six months of assembly with KIPP directors in San Antonio and Austin, Gruber stated she bought an apology, of types, from the board.

School dad and mom didn’t find out about Gruber’s grievance in regards to the recreation till the board issued the apology.

The response was too little, too late, Gruber stated.

KIPP admitted the sport occurred as described, in accordance with paperwork from the college seen by The Post.

Despite having children 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 sport 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 stated within the letter.

KIPP is understood nationally for its progressive training within the United States, and for offering an equitable training to Black, Latino and LGBTQIA children. 

School directors couldn’t be reached for remark.