New York Common Core Website Sent Students to Sex Quiz Page

*The following article contains graphic, sexually explicit terms.

While lawmakers in New York State are considering delaying the Common Core standards initiative because of its disastrous rollout, new problems with the academic standards are now drawing intense criticism.

Carol Burris, New York’s 2013 High School Principal of the Year, reports at Valerie Strauss’s Washington Post blog that Anna Shah, the mother of a kindergarten student, discovered highly offensive materials on the Student Services Page of the Engage NY Common Core materials site. When Shah reported her discovery to NYSED, the page was taken down, though the link had reportedly been active since October of 2012.

The link below is to a screen shot made prior to the removal of the site. 

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) site contained a section called “Make test prep fun,” which directed students to a site with quizzes that help them find out if they are a “sexy bitch,” “evil,” a “freak,” “insane,” etc.

Scrolling down and right on the page, students could also click on the links to take quizzes that would help them find out if they are “sluts,” or “losers.”

Questions on the “Are you a slut?” test include:

• How many sexual partners have you had?
• Would you have a threesome or a gang bang?
• Are you often called a slut?
• Have you ever let a boy hump you or grind on you in your younger years?
• Have you ever messed around with brothers, cousins, or some other people related somehow?
• What type of sex do you enjoy/prefer?

Students who wish to find out if they are a “loser” must answer these questions:

• Are you a virgin?
• Do you pay to talk to hot girls, and or pay for any female interaction?
• How many times per day do you jerk your dick to porn/female pictures?
• When did you last have sex?
• How much is in your savings and checking?
• What’s the average size of your dick?
• How much time do you spend on femdom sites per day?
• Do you cross dress?

As Burris writes, the Engage NY website, created and maintained by NYSED, was supposed to be a step in a positive direction for Common Core in New York. Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch had earlier boasted that New York is the only state using its award of over $28 million in Race to the Top funds to develop curricula aligned with the new standards:

When parents and teachers complained about the content of the curriculum modules, state education Commissioner John King dismissed their concerns, saying that he has “tremendous confidence in the materials.” He often describes the interest in New York’s reforms by the number of “hits” on Engage NY pages.

Based on the “Make test prep fun” fiasco, Burris quips, “sometimes ‘hits’ on the pages prove to be embarrassing.”