SUGAR LAND - The Bachelor reality television show has captured Sugar Land's attention this season.

ABC.com

Amber Alchalabi is trying to win the heart of Andy on "The Bachelor."

"I am incensed," said Lesley White, parent of a fourth grader. "It is not appropriate whatsoever for 9 and 10-year-old children."

Clearly, not everyone's a fan though.

"Kids are being exploited for this!" added White.

Amber Alchalabi, 22, is a contestant on the reality show and a fourth grade teacher at Colony Bend Elementary.

As parents of fourth graders, Raquel Flores and Lesley White are frustrated at the principal.

"I feel I was lied to by the principal," explained Flores.

The two are among several parents who said the school originally misled them. Parents said they were first told Alchalabi took a month off to care for a sick aunt, when, truth is, she was secretly taping the show out of state.

But that's not all.

"They were in the middle of studying for the TAKS test," said Flores. "While she was gone they took their writing TAKS test."

Students took the TAKS with a substitute.

Besides signing off on Alchalabi's absence, parents are also upset the principal let "The Bachelor" film crew shoot scenes in the school. They believe the show's content is inappropriate for fourth graders.

Administrators from Fort Bend Independent School District evidently did not know about Alchalabi's absence during TAKS testing or the reality TV show taping on campus. But after parents complained, the district launched an investigation.

For her part, Alchalabi said she had a confidentiality agreement and couldn't reveal the truth.

"I cherish my position at Colony Bend Elementary School," Alchalabi wrote in an e-mail to 11News on Wednesday, "holding it with the utmost degree of professionalism and integrity. I apologize if my participation in 'The Bachelor' created any issues or upset for the parents or my students, all of whom I adore."

"We believe the parents have some legitimate concerns," said Mary Ann Simpson, spokeswoman for Fort Bend ISD. "We don't believe any ill intent was ever intended here but we're certainly going to investigate it because we don't want anything like this to ever happen again."

Neither do parents.