A British teacher tagged her parents when she mistakenly emailed her class a documented video reading a children’s poem, which made the prose harmless about incest.
The unnamed teacher at Engs Primary School in East Yorkshire wanted to send his fifth- and sixth-graders a video of Michael Rosen’s author reading his poem “The Car Journey”, he said. reported Thursday Sun.
Instead, he sent the class a vile parody of the story called “The Horrible Car Trip,” which spliced the video to make it about incest.
“Teachers need to check what they send to children and not just get lazy and post random links that they haven’t verified,” said an angry father who listened to the video with his daughter.
“I heard her half the first time I was working and she was sitting next to me and struggling to answer the questions,” he said. “So I had to listen to the poem correctly and I realized that something was seriously wrong with what I was listening to and I turned off the video.”
He said the video was on for more than an hour before it was extracted.
The teacher sent the video through Google Classroom while teaching 9- and 10-year-olds remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the medium.
Rosen, a popular children’s author, wrote “The Car Trip” about the siblings arguing in the back of the family car during a trip with their mother, but the innocent story turned into a sick parody in the video doctorate.
Red-faced school officials were forced to apologize for irritating parents.
“The poem was uploaded by mistake and we apologized for that genuine mistake,” school principal Kath Roe said in a message. “We also want to thank the parents who contacted us immediately after noticing the error.”
“Changes have been made to the upload process and we will make sure that the content shared with our students is thoroughly checked by our teachers,” he wrote.