SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A Salt Lake City student and her mother are complaining that a “$5 Date” assignment at Highland High School’s adult roles and financial literacy class is rife with “gender bias.”

Jenn Oxborrow, mother of Highland High junior Lucy Mulligan, posted images to Facebook of an assignment handed out in the class that tasks students with going on a cheap date, and provided suggestions for appropriate behavior for boys and girls, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

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“Thanks for educating our kids, Utah Department of Education,” Oxborrow wrote in the post. “We really appreciate you (sic) evidence-based misogyny.”

The assignment was posted to a state website that allowed educators to share lessons and invited students to apply the material to a casual date or time with a friend, and Mulligan’s teacher shared it as “a light-hearted lesson in social norms,” Highland Principal Chris Jenson told the news site.

He said the teacher was “mortified” when Oxborrow condemned the assignment on Facebook in a post that quickly went viral. The materials offered numerous suggestions put forth by members of the opposite sex.

Some of the “suggestions for the girls” included:

Eat the food you order. Don’t waste his money.

Don’t be overly concerned with how much or little money he is spending.

Don’t worry about your appearance the whole date … If you think you’re too fat, etc., keep it to yourself.

Be feminine and lady-like, don’t use vulgar language or swear.

Don’t expect love and commitment when the date is meant to be casual.

Give him a chance to be gentlemanly (wait for him to open the door).

“Suggestions for the boy” included:

Use good table manners.

Don’t gripe about the money you’re spending or don’t have.

Don’t exaggerate to your friends about what happened on the date.

Don’t feel entitled to a kiss (or more).

Don’t comment or be concerned with how much she is or isn’t eating.

It’s okay to show your feelings.

Girls like flowers and little gifts.

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“It’s just completely unfair, I think,” Mulligan told KSL. “That does give girls, I think, a really negative message about how they should feel about their bodies and themselves.”

Oxborrow, a therapist, told the news site “there’s so many power and control issues within this, it’s really dangerous.”

“It’s just not OK,” she said.

Oxborrow told the Tribune the assignment is especially offensive because it implies that students date someone of the opposite sex, and said the “unbelievable” lesson puts sexually abnormal students on the spot.

“If you’re trying to figure out where you stand with your gender identity and then you get an assignment like this, it puts our kids at risk,” she claimed. “Our teachers and our principals have to acknowledge some of this and teach in a sensitive evidence-based way – and they’re not.”

Salt Lake City School District spokesman Jason Olsen agreed the assignment included “definite gender bias,” but said the teacher who handed out the assignment did not intend to “cause hurt.”

The assignment apparently caused enough of an uproar online that the Utah Board of Education ultimately decided to remove it from the state curriculum database, as well as numerous other assignments deemed offensive to students who do might not conform to social norms.

“They’re inappropriate,” Utah Board of Education spokesman Mark Peterson told the Tribune, “and we’re taking them down.”