A is fielding furious questions from parents after Churchill High’s health teacher and football coach assigned student to write a short story about a sexual fantasy short of having sex. The goal of the assignment, which was , was to demonstrate that it was possible to “show and receive loving physical affection without having sex,” according to screenshots shared with The Oregonian/OregonLive by Churchill High parents. Teacher Kirk Miller wrote that students’ short essays should not involve “penetration of any kind or oral sex,” but that they should reference at least three items from a list of suggestions, including “romantic music, candles, massage oil, feathers, a feather boa and flavored syrup. ” Another assignment by Miller, who is new to the school this year, was titled “With Whom Would You Do It,” said parent Katherine Rogers, whose 16-year-old daughter attends Churchill but was not in the class. The instructions for that assignment read: “List on the handout the initials of a male or a female that you would do each activity with. You may use the same person for multiple activities. ” Miller did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. Parents said that the activities in question were sexual in nature, spanning kissing to oral sex. Rogers said her understanding was that students in the class felt “mortified, awkward and creeped out,” by the assignments. Some students chose to respond to the fantasy assignment from the point of a view of a character in the cartoon “Kung Fu Panda” to avoid being too personal, she said. “What are we promoting?” Rogers asked. “What is an adult doing with this information?” In an email sent to Churchill High families on Thursday night, Principal Missy Cole said she and other administrators at the high school will work with Eugene school district officials to review its high school health curriculum, which is called Our Whole Lives and was developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. It is unclear whether the Our Whole Lives curriculum in fact calls for students to reveal to an adult their sexual fantasies or the initials of people with whom they would like to have sexual contact. Cole wrote, “At this time, the assignment has been removed from the class syllabus and will not be a part of students’ grades. The Our Whole Lives curriculum is utilized by many districts across the state and is endorsed by the Oregon Department of Education. ” Peter Rudy, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Education, said Friday that the curriculum is not in fact on the state’s of recommended instructional materials for high school health classes. In Oregon, districts may choose to use instructional materials that are not on the state education agency’s recommended list and are to notify the Oregon Department of Education when doing so. The state does not track districts’ curriculum choices and so does not know whether other districts are using Our Whole Lives, he said. “Alongside their local community, educators, and adolescent health experts, school districts decide what curriculum to use to meet Oregon standards and legal requirements” Rudy said. Oregon state standards require that sexuality education instruction must be “comprehensive, inclusive, not fear- or shame-based, medically accurate, and enhance students’ understanding of sexuality as a normal and health aspect of human development,” Rudy wrote. Instruction can be abstinence based, but students must receive medically accurate information on other methods of preventing sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. In her email to families, Cole wrote that the district was in the process of choosing a new health curriculum before the end of the year. And she pointed out that families are given a syllabus at the start of the year and have the choice to opt their students out of some or all coursework. Rogers questioned how and why the district had signed off on the curriculum in the first place. “The district reviews these curriculums before they get approved, right?” she asked. “Did they actually read this? If this was reviewed, how did it slip through the cracks? I could see this easily becoming a national scandal. ” By Friday morning, an account of the Churchill sex fantasy assignment had made its way to the combustible Twitter account Libs of TikTok, which often as a story generator for conservative media outlets. It had nearly 2 million views. .