Sex Education

Spring Break started a little early for some Cliff, N.M. elementary school students on Friday. Parents were called and the school was evacuated just after 10 AM by orders from School Principal Dick Stone. It turns out that all of the school's 3rd and 4th grade students were treated to an assembly where they were to watch a video about The American Revolution supplied by one of the teachers. As the tape started, the 3 teachers assigned to take care of the students left to get coffee from the teacher's lounge and the students in the assembly got left to watch the cream. The tape in which the students were watching was in fact an adult film called The Boston Tea Baggers, which was mistakenly brought in by a 3rd grade teacher, Richard Long. The children endured more than 30 minutes of the film before a teacher returned to find an auditorium full of shocked 9 and 10 year-olds. The tape was immediately confiscated by Principal Stone for what he called "an extensive review" over Spring Break. The school has issued an apology to the families of all the children.