GARLAND, Texas – A Texas economics teacher’s current events crossword is causing heartburn for some students and parents who don’t appreciate his candid assessment of presidential candidates.

The 5 across clue for Garland High School teacher B.J. Cope’s classroom crossword: Liar for president.

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The answer is obvious.

“He’s clearly bringing his political opinions into the classroom,” parent Laura Perkins Cox told the Dallas News. “I wasn’t aware that Garland High was an opinion factory.”

The assignment, which was not for class credit, included other political and business references, including a description of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as “Big Mouth for President,” and other references, such as “the jerk on Short Tank,” according to the news site.

First time voter Miranda Cox, Laura Cox’s daughter, told the news site that the assignment and classroom discussion about “crooked” Hillary Clinton made her feel icky.

“You shouldn’t be asking these kinds of questions on a quiz,” the 17-year-old said.

Laura Cox thinks the crossword will influence students to vote a certain way.

“I don’t know if he thinks it’s humor, but this is not funny,” she said. “It’s bad judgement.”

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Cope could not be reached for comment, but Garland Independent School District spokeswoman Mida Milligan told the News the assignment was not graded. Milligan said the district is investigating the crossword assignment and refused to comment further, claiming the issue is a personnel matter.

“This has been a particularly cynical election cycle and passions are running high,” she said. “Our job is to help students get perspective and not give them our opinions. We need to help our students learn how to be rational and respectful of views different than theirs.”

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The crossword debacle comes despite guidelines about political issues sent out to teachers earlier this month.

“The vitriol and personal attacks in this campaign cycle, along with the downright childish behavior of the candidates, threaten to discourage voters from participating in the process,” the guidelines read. “This is particularly troublesome in young people, whose withdrawal from being active, informed citizens can result in decades of detachment.”

Lessons centered on the presidential race are causing friction across the country.

At Cedar Ridge High School in North Carolina, for example, English teacher Amanda Harder came under fire last week for her numerous lessons focused on comparing Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda to the Trump campaign’s communications, according to the blog Lady Liberty.

Screenshots of Harder’s lessons show she asked students to “review the idea of rhetoric and compare rhetoric used during the Nazi campaign to the rhetoric used during the Trump campaign.”

Students told the blog that on Sept. 15, “We watch a Hitler speech and several Nazi propaganda videos and she compares Trump to Hitler and says during one of Hitler’s speeches about Marxism to replace the word Marxist with terrorist,” according to the site.

When students attempted to record the teacher’s lessons, Harder confiscated students’ phones, students in the class told Lady Liberty.

The blog contends that “according to a timeline given to me by students at the school which spans from September 13 to the 20th, every single lesson Harder taught centered on Hitler and Donald Trump.”

“Watched some video then she talked for a long time comparing Trump to Hitler over and over again,” one student said of a lesson on Sept. 20 that eventually turned to North Carolina’s HB2, which requires restroom facilities based on biological gender, rather than gender identity.

Harder “started talking about HB2 and said if she and her kid were in a bathroom and a transvestite walked in, then she wouldn’t be scared but worried about the safety of the transvestite,” a student told Lady Liberty.

Parents, of course, were irate about Harder’s classroom propaganda.

According to Lady Liberty:

A parent tells this site that they are not a Trump supporter but that, “I can’t believe what this woman was saying to these kids” and that they wonder what the reaction would have been had the teacher, “replaced Trump with Clinton or Obama” in the lessons.