HOUSTON – One student wrote “Jesus is a lie.”

Another posted “Im hungry,” while others went with profanity or racial slurs.

“This screen was a bad idea,” another student wrote.

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The messages were part of an orientation session for freshmen following their first week at Houston’s Memorial High School. Principal Lisa Weir called the new students to the auditorium and invited them to ask questions anonymously through smart phone messages that were then projected on a big screen, and the outcome was as predictable as it was offensive, Click2Houston reports.

Parents and other guardians, of course, are not happy.

“She thought it was ridiculous that they would put all of that information up on the big screen for everyone to see,” one grandmother told the news site. “I think all the kids were surprised and definitely the faculty was surprised that happened.”

“I think they definitely should have cut it off,” she said.

Click2Houston reports many of the messages were too vulgar to broadcast and included homophobic statements, as well as inappropriate sexual and racial references.

Others were equally moronic, but more benign.

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“Sexy boots,” “Miley Cyrus for president,” “Hitler was a good guy, “Vaping saved my life” and “Someone should get fired for this,” were among the less offensive, ABC 13 reports.

“It was a bunch of kids trying to get attention,” senior Rachel Robertson told the news site. “It’s just like the crazier stuff they can put up there, the better.”

Parents seem to believe the whole episode was predictable and could have been avoided with a little common sense.

“They had an opportunity to type up a bunch of ridiculous things that were going to go up on the big screen and they took it,” one parent told ABC 13. “They are in the ninth grade, what else were they going to do?”

Weir issued a statement to parents about the Aug. 28 assembly, but placed the full blame for the bad idea squarely on students.

“To give you contest about the assembly, here are the facts. In an effort to gain feedback from freshman students about their first week of school, we used online ‘Today’s Meet’ technology. Students were invited to type questions on their phones, which where then anonymously projected in a scrolling manner on the screen,” Weir wrote.

“As I shared with freshman parents via email that afternoon, we were disappointed by many of the comments. Many were racial, sexual, and just plain offensive.”

Weir also outlined actions the school has taken in the wake of the incident, including an email to faculty and parents asking them to discuss the assembly with students, broaching the issue with parents at a booster club breakfast, and “follow up advisory lessons” with students and teachers.

“This was a teachable moment for all of us,” Weir wrote. “We assumed the best of our students, and when some of them let us down, we responded.”