A sticker with the sexually suggestive term “Lesbian Juice” was given out at freshman orientation Aug. 13 at a Kansas City-area high school, The Heartlander has learned.

Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231 Superintendent Dr. Brian Huff acknowledged in an email to a parent that the stickers “were inappropriate and should not have been passed out.”

“We are aware of that situation and have handled it based on the appropriate BOE policies,” Huff wrote, without specifying what action might have been taken.

The Heartlander has reached out to a district spokesperson asking what the meaning of the term is, as far as the school can determine; who made the stickers available to students and why; whether they were they authorized, and if so by whom; and if there has been any discipline meted out or policies changed as a result of the incident.

According to Google AI, the term “could refer to the sexual fluids exchanged between two people who identify as women.”

The meaning of it is clear enough to concerned parent Carrie Schmidt, who has confronted the district on other matters such as lewd books in district libraries.

“It’s a sexual innuendo. It’s like bodily fluids. It has to do with, like, the vagina. That’s what it says to me,” Schmidt, who found out about the incident from another parent, tells The Heartlander.

“I just couldn’t believe it. I would assume that they would have had to approve that, right? How does that slip by? Who’s not paying attention?”

Schmidt, as did The Heartlander, had more questions for the district.

“How has this issue been handled to where parents, like me, don’t have to wonder about the decisions your staff is making when it comes to knowing what is appropriate and not appropriate when it comes to sex?” she wrote to Huff.

“I am baffled how and why any of your staff would allow anything to be passed out to students having a sexual innuendo on them.”

Schmidt wondered in her email to the superintendent whether the district’s lax policies on bawdy book passages contributed to someone’s belief the Lesbian Juice stickers were appropriate at freshman orientation.

“Maybe with the literature that is allowed in the libraries for students to read, that gave the staff the green light that it is okay to pass out stickers saying ‘Lesbian Juice,’” she wrote.

Indeed, Schmidt read passages of what she called “a sexually explicit book” titled Jesus Land by Julia Sheeres at the Sept. 8 school board meeting, including:

I open my eyes, and in a boozy blur, see his penis jutting from his shorts. He grabs it by the root.

“Lick it,” he says in his thick voice, pressing my head toward it.

I’ve heard girls giggle about blow jobs at school; it’s something a boyfriend requires of you.

Schmidt questioned the book’s fitness in March 2024, but the district this May ended the right of parents to challenge library books’ appropriateness, Schmidt says, adding that Jesus Land has been reviewed by the superintendent and retained by the district.

“The memoir contains explicit descriptions of sexual conduct,” Google AI reports, “which led to its prohibition in some school districts under Florida Statute 847.012.”

Schmidt previously was banned from all Gardner Edgerton district property and events — both home and away — for taking and sharing a photo of a sex-related school poster in the high school. A judge later lifted the ban, but the matter is still being litigated in a lawsuit against the district.