Freehold School Apologizes After Non-Family-Friendly Video Is Shown To 3rd Graders

FREEHOLD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- A New Jersey school was apologizing Thursday night, after students were shown a video that contained profanity.

A Spanish teacher at Joseph J. Catena Elementary School in Freehold used an animated video to help explain the holiday Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, to her third graders.

The video, from the animated "Foamy the Squirrel" series, is intended for an adult crowd. In the clip shown in the class, the animated squirrel asks his human friend, Germaine, about Dia de los Muertos.

The video does explain the difference for Dia de los Inocentes and Dia de los Angelitos on Nov. 1 – honoring infants that have passed on – and Dia de los Muertos on Nov. 2, honoring the returning spirits of deceased adults.

"It's not Mexican Halloween, idiot," Germaine says the clip.

But the clip also includes some adult language, including one remark where Foamy the Squirrel calls Germaine a "gloomy putz," and Germaine calls herself "three quarters morbid bitch."

The superintendent told CBS2 the teacher had not screened the video, and saw it for the first time as about 20 students. She stopped playing it as soon as something inappropriate was heard, the superintendent said.

An email went out to parents apologizing, the superintendent said. The video was only shown for one class.