To be fair, Monessen School District officials told the Associated Press they don’t know who passed out the “word search” puzzles to students.
The “Fifty Shades of Grey”-themed puzzles became public knowledge at a school board meeting Tuesday night.
They contained terms like “spanking,” ”submissive,” ”leather cuffs” and “bondage.”
James Carter, a concerned parent whose son received a copy of the puzzle, questioned the principal and the dean of students, but after he insisted that the conversation be on record, he says school officials stopped talking.
"I wanted to record the conversation because a lot of parents had questions about it, and I was denied that," Carter told the board.
"I asked my son who passed it out, and he said the teacher passed it out," Carter told WTAE-TV. "I don't think this is what they should be doing in the eighth-grade level."
Superintendent Leanne Spazak said the circumstances of the puzzle are under investigation.
School board member Roberta Bergstedt told WTAE that the puzzle was distributed accidentally.
"It was a huge but unintentional error and collected from the five students involved as soon as it was realized," Roberta Bergstedt wrote in an email to the local ABC affiliate. "Unfortunately one copy was taken by a student who then posted it on social media."
The highly-anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” about a journalist who engages in a sadistic sexual affair with a billionaire, hits theaters nationwide on Friday.
