OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Sometimes it’s the teachers who make students think about school violence.

Such is the case in Oklahoma City and it comes courtesy of an 8th grade assigned reading.

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Parent Larry Nethercutt tells KWTV a worksheet on verbs given to his son’s class details a real-life murder in which a student is accused of killing his teacher.

“Once I got to it, I went to my mom immediately and said, ‘Mom, this just took a really dark turn,'” the student tells News 9.

He made it as far as the third question before it shocked him.

The lesson about identifying verbs included, “He followed his teacher to the bathroom, beat her, and slit her throat.”

The passage was about the October 2013 murder of a Massachusetts teacher, allegedly committed by a 15-year-old student.

“I was shocked,” the parent says. “When I got to the phrase, ‘slit her throat,’ that’s where I stopped and that’s when I picked up the phone.”

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The news station lists more questions:

The next question read, “He, then, dumped her body in the woods behind the school.”

The fifth question said, “Police were notified when a pool of blood was found in the women’s bathroom.”

Another question read, “No one knows what caused him to kill his teacher.”

“I don’t expect my son to be subjected to violence and they’re handing it out,” Nethercutt says. “He’s not looking for it, it’s given to him.”

The school has no plans to change the reading.

After the parent met with the teacher and school leaders, they said his son could be exempt from “uncomfortable” lessons in the future.

“It kept going through my head, like the images of it,” the 13-year-old student says. “I stopped reading it and I couldn’t read it anymore or else I’d get the images in my head still.”

But Western Heights Superintendent Joe Kitchens says he was “unaware” of the assignment and believes it may be “inappropriate.”

“I feel like I speak for the rest of the parents that this is not, this material shouldn’t even be in this school building. This should not even be an option,” Nethercutt tells News 9.