A teenage girl slammed the Wake County Public School System during a board meeting on Tuesday and announced her departure from the school district after she was forced to read graphic sexual material in her English class.

During a Tuesday Wake County Board of Education meeting, a 10th-grade student recounted her move to North Carolina just three months ago. She enrolled in Athens Drive Magnet High School and told the board that she was very excited about the opportunity, until last Friday when her teacher assigned the class to read a story independently.

“There was a part in this story that made me feel very uncomfortable, and I looked around and saw the same expression on other students’ faces,” she said, reading the story aloud.

The story centered around two cousins and used vulgar language depicting sexual acts. The excerpt appears to be from “Tomorrow is too far” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The 15-year-old girl read the description to the Board:

The class then came back together to discuss the reading and answer questions. The student said during her public testimony that she went home that day and told her parents, who were “as outraged as I was,” she said. 

“I should not have graphic, incestual, sexual content taught to me in my classes,” she stated. “I am deeply bothered and deeply disappointed. I have decided to leave Athens Drive High School because I should not have to deal with pornographic, incestual, sexual conduct taught to me in my classes.”

Tami Fitzgerald, Executive Director of the NC Values Coalition, expressed concern over Wake County Public Schools’ allowing and promoting such material and cited it as a reason for declining enrollment.

“It’s highly offensive that Wake County Public Schools not only allow this type of material but promote its usage in classrooms,” said Fitzgerald. “This young girl described perfectly why people are leaving public schools, especially in Wake County and Mecklenburg County in droves. It’s because parents and children are constantly subjected to materials that are obscene, that are pervasively vulgar, and they have no remedy for this.”

Just two school districts in the state, Randolph and Burke Counties, have adopted policies for book and classroom material selection that prohibit vulgar and obscene materials. Fitzgerald explained that uncomfortable situations could be prevented if school boards adopted policies to remove vulgar or obscene books from the classroom or library or shield them from purchasing new materials.

“We have an all-out agenda to go after children with obscenity and LGBT ideologies, and we have groups in our country whose mission is to push this material and this agenda onto our children. That’s what’s happening,” she concluded.