CEDARVILLE, N.J. – A New Jersey mother is furious after her 13-year-old son was given a language arts assignment based on the hypothetical scenario that he went to a party, got drunk, had unprotected sex, and contracted herpes.

“I was shocked,” said Amy Loper, mother of an eighth grader at Myron L. Powell Elementary School, which serves pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students.

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“I don’t think it’s age appropriate. I don’t think it’s appropriate at all,” Loper told WCBS 880, according to CBS New York. “Just because society thinks it’s OK, let’s help them? Let’s help all the kids think it’s OK?

“I just don’t understand why anybody thinks this is appropriate,” she said.

The assignment posed a “situation” and students were tasked with writing a “reactive response,” according to a photo of the assignment posted by NBC 10.

It read:

You had a really rotten day, but lucky for you your best friend is having an awesome party later. You go to the party and start drinking. You have a little too much to drink and start talking to this girl/guy you’ve never seen before. You head upstairs to get better acquainted despite several friends telling you that you don’t even know this person. You end up having sex with this person. The next day you really can’t remember everything that happened and rely on your best friend to fill you in. A week later you find out that you contracted herpes from your one night stand and that this is a disease you will have all your life and never know when an outbreak will occur.

Loper said parents were not alerted to the assignment beforehand.

“I’m not beyond knowing that this kind of stuff happens,” Loper said. “But to just throw it out in language arts, as just nonchalant ‘oh underage drinking, unprotected sex, whatever. If you do it, what are you gonna do about it?’ That’s how it comes across.”

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Loper contacted the superintendent with her concerns, and said she received an email informing her the assignment is part of the district’s core curriculum, and it’s supplemental to the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.”

NBC 10 reports the book purports to be a “handbook to self-esteem and success” for teenagers.

The superintendent also informed Loper he can opt her son out of sex education, despite the fact he received the assignment in his language arts class.

“But that’s not the point,” Loper wrote back in response. “My issue is with it outside of health class.”

“This is vulgarity, at the upmost,” she told NBC 10.

Most parents who commented online were outraged by the assignment.

“Well, alrighty, then! The superintendent is OK with this, and said it is part of the ‘core curriculum.’ This can only be explained as lib(eral) craziness running public schools,” Al Amer posted to Facebook. “Assignments proposing situations involving drinking and sex for 13 year olds is not ‘education.’ It is indoctrination in personal behavior totally inappropriate for 8th graders. Parents need to have more control over school curriculum, because the ‘educators’ can not be trusted.”

“How does underage drinking and six fit right into a curriculum titled ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens?’” Michelle Folmar questioned. “No wonder kids are having babies in bathrooms and killing them, teens have slept with more people than they are able to name, no morals about anything.

“I’m not one to jump on the school is so corrupt band wagon, but in this instance, with that response, my kids wouldn’t return for another day!”