High School Award Ceremony Features Profanity; Sex Toys

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

A teacher for the drama program at Bellingham Washington High School has issued a formal apology after the awards ceremony for the program included profanity, a box of sex toys and even jokes about pedophile priests.

Teri Grimes, a teacher of over 30 years who is scheduled to retire at the end of this school year, reportedly used profanity and told a joke about a priest wanting sex with children.

A parent in the audience sent an e-mail to KOMO television about the events that occurred at the ceremony in the school’s auditorium.  The woman was there with her 17-year-old daughter who will graduate on June 6th.  The television station kept the parent and child’s names secret until after graduation.

The event featured sexually oriented awards, including giving a sex toy to the boy who voted as the “horniest stud.”

“I deeply apologize for some very inappropriate comments and actions made during our drama students’ end-of-the-year awards ceremony,” Grimes wrote in her apology.  “This is not representative of our students who take such great pride in their school and respect one another. Much of the evening was a great celebration of their work. However, as a teacher and the club’s leader, I take full responsibility and am extremely sorry.”

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