8th Grader’s Homework Asks About Partying, Drinking, Sex and Herpes [Video]

What do you think? Is this a bit too much for an eighth grader?

This happened at a school in South Jersey, according to NBC Philadelphia. A woman's 13-year-old son came home with some work for school. The assignment was for a language arts class, and it asked the students to analyze this passage.

You had a really rotten day, but lucky for you your best friend is having an awesome party later. You go to the party and start drinking. You have a little too much to drink and start talking to this girl/guy you’ve never seen before. You head upstairs to get better acquainted despite several friends telling you that you don’t even know this person. You end up having sex with this person. The next day you really can’t remember everything that happened and rely on your best friend to fill you in. A week later you find out that you contracted herpes from your one night stand and that this is a disease you will have all your life and never know when an outbreak will occur.

Parents are upset because the content of the assignment was outside of health class, and even more upset because the school didn't inform them there would be such content.

So far the school hasn't commented.

So, what do you think? Is this a bit much for an eighth grade language arts class?