Latina mom pulls daughter out of school in Texas after being asked to play ‘seductive hooker’

A Texas mom who describes herself as a former “awakened” liberal pulled her 13-year-old daughter out of school after finding out she had been asked to play the role of a “seductive whore” in a play in her seventh… class class.

Laura Maria Gruber, 45, had sent her daughter to KIPP Poder Academy in San Antonio. The school’s website claims to celebrate “diversity, equity and inclusion.”

But last September, Gruber pulled her teenage daughter out of school after finding out that her teacher was making students in her class play a game known as “Bear-Hooker-Hunter” — a kind of grown-up version of rock-paper-scissors.

Gruber, who is originally from Puerto Rico, claims that her daughter and other seventh-grade students of Social Emotional Learning class paired up and posed in the front of the class.

The teens were then told to pretend to be a “hunter” and point an imaginary gun at each other; a ‘creepy bear’ with his paws up, or a ‘seductive whore’ with one hand on one hip and another behind the ear.

The explicit purpose of the game is unclear, but it is thought to be a form of ‘team building’

The explicit purpose of the game is unclear, but it is thought to be a form of ‘team building’.

“I picked up my daughter and her best friend from school and my daughter said, ‘We played this game at school, mom, and you’re going to be mad,'” Gruber told Fox News.

“When she told me about kids standing up in class and pretending to be whores, I almost crashed the car.”

When Gruber learned of the bizarre classroom roleplay, he pulled her daughter out of the classroom and demanded an apology from the administrators.

Gruber’s argument against the school was that the game sexualized the teens, noting that a girl in the class had been sexually assaulted and was “triggered” by the experience.

The KIPP Poder Academy in San Antonio claims to celebrate “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Although her own daughter decided not to participate in the game, the boys and girls in the class were told to organize themselves in order of maturity, with some being bribed with candy to play with.

“The teacher was quite young, so you can imagine what kind of people are now coming from universities to teach our kids,” Gruber said. “My daughter was so annoyed and embarrassed. She said the boys and the teacher laughed.

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

Six months after Gruber first filed the complaint with school administrators, she received an apology after meeting with KIPP administrators in San Antonio and Austin.

Other parents of children in the class were not made aware of the class antics or Gruber’s complaint until the school board apologized for the game.

‘I really feel like I’ve been cheated. I wanted my child to go to this school because of the diversity and trusted them. But I didn’t realize it would have to do with sexual diversity and kids being sexualized,” Gruber told the New York Post.

“The worst part is that this school is downtown and San Antonio is known as a hub for child sex trafficking.”

School principal Stephanie Lee agreed that the game fell below usual standards, but noted that it was never intended to sexualize the contestants.

In his apology, KIPP admitted that the game fell short of the bar of excellence and was not suitable for students.

The school denied that the game sexualized children, despite requiring the teens to pose as “seductive whores.”

School principal Stephanie Lee agreed that the game fell below the school’s usual standards, but noted that it was never intended to sexualize the contestants.

“Although we always pursue excellence as a core value, sometimes we stumble,” Lee wrote in a letter to school families in February.

“This game was not part of a KIPP curriculum and was not appropriate for students,” Lee added.

“Although we always pursue excellence as a core value, sometimes we stumble,” Principal Lee wrote in a February letter to school families

“This game was not part of a KIPP curriculum and was not appropriate for students. Any activities involving actions or words like “whore” or “seduce” should never have a place in our schools. While it was never intended to sexualize a child, I recognize that the impact may have left students feeling uncomfortable or traumatized. That doesn’t do justice to the respect we always want to instill in our students; in reality it is humiliating.’

“The term ‘whore’ is an unfriendly word that you should not use or repeat,” the director said in the letter home.

Gruber said she disagrees with the school’s explanation and that waiting six months for a response is unacceptable.

Gruber filed her complaint with the Texas Education Agency, which closed the investigation because they “focused more on inappropriate teacher-student relationships.”

The Texas Attorney General also reportedly dismissed the case, along with the U.S. Department of Education, which also dismissed the case after an interview with Gruber.

While KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools are in favor of their progressive educational stance and focus on teaching black, Latino, and LGBTQIA children, Gruber believes the incident only serves to make parents increasingly aware of what their children are taught in the classroom.