A Washington State middle school hosted a licking competition between students and staff, which prompted an outcry from parents over the “horrifying” and “highly vile” game.
In a video recorded by appalled students at Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick, minor students and adult teachers are shown licking marshmallow cream off of either side of two clear plexiglass panes at the same time during a competition at a school pep rally on March 31.
Students in the crowd could be heard screaming, “Ew,” “Disgusting,” “That’s so gross,” and “What the heck?” in the video, which was later posted to Facebook by a concerned mother. Another student yelled, “Who thought that this was a good idea?”
Megan Sa, the mother whose daughter sent her the video, told Fox News Digital that she originally emailed the superintendent, the school board, and the human resources department asking for an explanation regarding what happened to see how they would be addressing the situation.
In the video, the principal is seen laughing while taking out his phone to film the scene, according to Sa. She also said she was “baffled” by another part of the video that showed a grown adult holding a child’s head to the plexiglass while licking the other side of the structure, although she said she was “most” alarmed by the final scene where the security guard “looked like he was licking the marshmallow off of the plexiglass in a sensual way.”
“In my opinion, we do not send our children to school to be exposed to highly sexualized behavior by adults,” she told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We send them to school to learn and for them to socialize with other people their ages.
“They shouldn’t have to sit in a gym for a school assembly and wonder ‘What is going on?’ Schools should be a safe place for children to go and this despicable display of adult behavior was hard to watch.”
Sa said she called a couple of other moms to get their reaction and gauge if she was potentially overreacting, but she said she was met with similar reactions of parents asking, “How did the adults in the room allow this to happen?”
“At least five adults were in the room and they just continued to participate,” she said. “This isn’t the first instance where I’ve had a grievance with this school and I’ve gone to the principal about it.”
“It was my understanding that these students were putting their names on a list to say, ‘Yeah, I want to participate in a game at the assembly,’ but the teachers and the administrators did not tell them what kind of game they would be participating in,” she said.