PHOENIX – Phoenix parents are outraged and a teacher is on paid leave after students were assigned a survey with 200 personality questions, many of them about sexual desires and other inappropriate topics.

“It is regrettable it happened,” Phoenix Union High School District spokesman Craig Pletenik told KPHO. “We apologize to our students for being exposed to that. We apologize to our parents that something like that was given to our classes at the school.”

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Students shared the survey, assigned by a substitute on behalf of a psychology teacher at Betty Fairfax High School, with their parents last week and the response was predictable.

The assignment, doled out to students in ninth through twelfth grade, contained more than 200 questions about all facets of life, but it was the inquiries about sex and death that shocked parents.

ABC 15 reports many of the questions were fine – like “Are you irritable sometimes?” – but others were far more controversial.

“Do you prefer ordinary sex?” one of the questions asked.

“Do you watch pornographic movies? Would you attend a wife-swapping party?” others read.

Still more questions probed students about whether they have “ever felt the urge to kill someone.”

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“I think it was very, very, very inappropriate for my 15-year-old to get those questions,” Karina Vega, whose son is in the class, told ABC 15. “He just told me about it, he didn’t ask me anything.”

School officials did not name the teacher involved, and neither did media reports. A letter sent home to parents said the teacher was suspended with pay pending an investigation into the assignment, which was not reviewed or approved by administrators, Pletenik said.

“We are going to be talking to our teachers and administrators to review our processes and understand how materials are approved and vetted,” he said.

The incident prompted plenty of comments online, but surprisingly not everyone thought the survey was a bad idea.

“Like they have never heard this,” Ray Pena posted to Facebook.

“Meh, it was a self-scoring personality test,” Alan Whipple added. “Who gives a rat’s heinie.”

“Another example of how wimpy and easily offended people are becoming. #GrowSomeBallsFolks,” Kelly Jenkins wrote.

Of course, many people didn’t think the survey was appropriate for high school students and called for a stiff punishment for the teacher.

“If this happened to most anyone’s kids, the parents would be beside themselves with disgust and anger,” Karn Juhle posted. “In my opinion, this person is a sick f**k who should get serious jail time.”

“Have you seen what they teach in sex education classes around this country?” Presaldumiti Smrditi commented. “This is a very tame comparison. Teaching children that hand jobs, blowjobs and anal is not sex. And giving them explicit instructions on how to give oral sex. Do a few Google searches of what some schools teach 10/11 year old in sex education classes.”