A Hillsborough County Spanish teacher has been removed from the classroom for a controversial questionnaire in which she asked students for personal information about their religion, skin color, sexual orientation and disabilities.

Teacher's questionnaire was called 'privilege form'

Questionnaire asked for personal information from middle-school students

One student said Yoselis Ramos is a good teacher

The Office of Professional Standards began an investigation into Spanish teacher Yoselis Ramos, 23, a first-year educator at Monroe Middle School in Tampa, but she resigned Thursday, according to Hillsborough Schools spokeswoman Tanya Arja.

Ramos had two different classes fill out the "privilege form" on April 4. A couple of parents complained the next day, Arja said.

Dale Cox wonders why Ramos asked her seventh-grade grandson to fill out the form in the first place.



"A conversation about a child and their sexuality should not come into play," Cox said. "If you’re going to do a class paper, then you do the class paper on the subject of Spanish. Not anything else."



The categories "asexual" and "pansexual" were under the sexual orientation section of the form. Arja said the topic in class was about equality, but the district would never ask students for that kind of information.

Student Jacob Cox said Ramos is a good teacher.

"I hope she comes back and starts teaching Spanish again," he said.

Bay News 9 was unable to reach Ramos for comment.

