Clark County School District in Las Vegas and several officials are being sued over an assignment to a high school girl who was required to recite a sexually explicit monologue in front of her drama class, a piece that was supposedly too vulgar to read aloud at school board meetings.
Candra Evans and Terrel Evans are suing the district, Superintendent Jesus Jara, the teacher, and others for "unlawful grooming and abuse of a minor" concerning the "pornographic" assignment.
The incident occurred in March, when the teacher -- identified by the Daily Mail as theater instructor Kelly Hawes -- assigned each student in the 15-year-old's class to write a monologue and then perform one another's work, the lawsuit reads.
The monologue given to the Evans' daughter to read "contained explicit, obscene and sexually violent material," the lawsuit alleges.
Also, "[the teacher] helped the other student edit their obscenely violent pornographic monologue, knowing it would then be provided to another student to read, memorize and perform in front of the class," claims the lawsuit.
The final version of the monologue depicted a woman informing her ex-boyfriend that she was a lesbian.
After being informed of her daughter's assignment in April, Candra Evans spoke with an administrator at the school, who then met with her and her husband to discuss the work.
"[The administrator] empathized with them that he would be very upset if he found out that assignment had been given to his daughter," the lawsuit says. "He told them that plaintiffs were handling the issue better than he would and that it would not be swept under the rug. He promised he would make sure that it never happened again."
"Further, he agreed that [the teacher] should have stopped [the student] as soon as she heard the first line of the monologue."
A subsequent meeting with others school officials, several staff "defended the obscene monologue and then blamed [the student] for reading it, stating that she could have said 'no,' but she didn't."
Also, the lawsuit claims that some staff "backtracked and admitted that the assignment was not appropriate for the classroom."
In May, the parents spoke to the regional superintendent. A school associate agreed to investigate it. Candra Evans requested that "no one at [the school] speak with [her daughter] about the matter unless she was present and [the school associate] said he would honor the request."
A few days later, the parents inquired with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. They were referred to Clark County School District Police. According to the suit, the parents allege a report was taken, but then later falsified.
Candra Evans spoke at a CCSD Board of Trustees meeting, where her microphone turned off for using inappropriate language, even though she was reading from the monologue her daughter was required to perform.
The lawsuit alleges First Amendment violations, along with infliction of emotional distress and seeks $50,000 in damages.
CCSD officials tweeted in May they would investigate the circumstances.
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