First, I want to defend English teachers Seeing as how that is my prospective career! Lol!!

Ok.. now on to the more important thing. That behaviour is totally inappropriate (the teacher, not you or the other girls). Honestly, I think this is something that should be taken out of the school (perhaps the school board??). The principal is really in a dilemma - staff or students? And, most likely from what you've said, the teacher's version won't match what really happened. Also, with all those boys getting A's for reading their work - are they honestly going to speak up? I doubt it.

No student should have to divulge information that they don't feel is appropriate. I don't think I would have even written the composition - like I want my old hag of a teacher knowing what my first date was like. Not only that, what about the kids who haven't dated yet? She's practically inviting students to be excluded. She is totally in the wrong for forcing everyone to write about such a presonal topic, let alone make people read it out loud. I've never read the novel, so I can't say whether I think the topic is relevant or not, but there are so many other things she could have assigned. For example, write a short story about a teen's first date, partner up and write a short skit about the first date experience, something like that. In those two options, students can draw on their own experience if they want, but they can totally make it up too, and no one would ever really know. It's the whole "distance-far" thing (a teacher term I learned in an Education class).. teachers should always make an assignment so that the narrator can by annonymous (sp???). The assignment should relate to something the students can indentify with (ex - probably shouldn't ask students to write about the pain of wearing dentures; chances are most won't know anything about it) BUT it should be structured in such a way that the student does not have to personally involve him or herself if they choose not to.

This situation makes me so angry