Saturday, November 2, 2024 – A
kindergarten teacher discovered a condom in one of her
student’s pockets and her lighthearted text to his mother about it has gone
viral.
The child’s parent, Crystal Starnes, shared a recent video
to TikTok of the text she got from her son Hudson’s teacher.
“Let me first say Hudson is NOT in trouble over this lol!”
the message reads. “He came up to me before recess and pulled this out of his
pocket asking what this was.”
“I just did not tell him what it was, just that I will
dispose of it and let you know we discussed this!” the teacher continued before
her next message revealed a picture of a condom on her desk.
Starnes also added: “That, friends, is a condom that my
five-year-old brought to school today.”
She then showed the rest of the conversation, where she
asked her son’s teacher where the condom came from since the parent had “no
idea” how he got it.
In response, the teacher explained that when she asked
Hudson how he discovered the condom, he said he “just found it in” his pants’
pockets.
“I asked him if he could have found it anywhere, the ground,
the floor of the store, anything,” the teacher’s message continued. “But he
said just in his pockets.”
Starnes explained that she and her husband went to Walmart
recently, where they bought Hudson a new pair of jeans.
“LOL. Omg. That is not mine or my husband’s,” she told the
teacher in her next message. “I think someone put it there before we bought
them. How embarrassing! Haha. I’m so sorry.”
The kindergarten teacher said she understood, telling
Starnes not to feel “embarrassed” and that the situation “got taken care of.”
Starnes playfully reacted to the incident in the caption,
writing: “Guys, I cannot make this stuff up!”
In the comments of the video, many parents and teachers
shared how they could relate to Starnes’ embarrassing experience.
“I have a preschooler bring in one of his mom’s pads and ask
me why his mom kept pop tarts in her bathroom and did I keep snacks in my
bathroom too,” one wrote.
“Like this would be absolutely hilarious if it was my kids,
cause they found our little bag of [condoms] one day. But I’m also like you
don’t check your kids’ clothes when you buy them?” another responded.
Speaking to People, Starnes explained how she knew that
the condom in her son’s pocket was not found in her home.
“My husband and I have been together for seven years. Hudson
turns six next month and I got my tubes tied when he was a baby, so we’ve not
had any use for condoms in our home. So when his teacher says he found one in
his pocket, it was very shocking,” she said.
“I’d taken tags off of them this morning. I guess somebody
could have been playing around and pranked somebody by putting one in there.
Really, that’s all we could think of,” she said.
