Posted on 05/10/2022 11:08:38 AM PDT by Morgana
A group of furious Ohio parents want a high school teacher fired after their children were given a historical book to read, which they claim is filled with 'sex and wickedness'.
The 10th grade students at Milford High School, in Milford, were required to read passages of 'In The Time of Butterflies' by Julia Alvarez aloud in class, according to one parent.
The book is a fictional account of the Dominican Republic's Trujillo dictatorship in the 1960s, and follows the Mirabel sisters. The novel was adapted into a film in 2001, and was rated PG-13.
In a Facebook post, irate parent Amy Boldt K wrote: 'THIS CONTENT IS EXPLICIT! Our 10th graders are being forced to read this pornography in school! I am disgusted beyond words.
Boldt told parents, who were just as appalled as she was, to contact the principal. She also demanded that the teacher be removed from the school.
She also posted an excerpt of the book, which includes the female protagonists being sexually assaulted, and another girl banding her breasts to keep them from growing, out of fear it would bring unwanted attention from men.
'This is only a small content of the book [sic],' Boldt wrote. 'Are you concerned yet, parents?? Time for action.'
Boltd's post garnered mixed reaction with some furious like she was, while others showed support for the school and calling out those ridiculing parents to stay more on top of their kids.
Darba Bowers said: 'This requires immediate corrective action! You don't have to have a child in school to protest. Your taxes support our public schools!'
Ro Wilson said: 'Wow! That was rated R I can see why kids would be uncomfortable to read this! Wtf.'
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arth ping
Unless parents pull all their kids from school-—screw them. I’m sorry, that sounds harsh but we did this when we lived in NJ. We had to cut back on almost everything, work extra jobs and over time. There’s too many options but asking government to resolve a government problem IS a losing battle. Pull your kids and fight the taxes.
Too bad the parents didn’t demand that teachers be fired when they let boys in the girls bathroom.
Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret!
Too many people, especially government officials, have lost the fear they used to have a getting tarred and feathered, beaten, or run out of town on a rail like the colonists did. I believe only three or four decades ago an educator doing this would be at risk of getting shot dead by a parent as a pervert.
The government should’ve seen January 6 as a rattlesnake warning rattle. Instead they have started tormenting the snake to make it stop rattling. This only ends in conflict. A blind man can see it coming.
“I believe only three or four decades ago an educator doing this would be at risk of getting shot dead by a parent as a pervert.”
My neighborhood must have been wimpy. An “educator” doing this would have been beaten to the point that they would remember it for a long time and no one would have seen anything.
Because high school students know nothing about sex or wickedness
Some people
To quote Thelma Harper “sounds like smut to me”
we read Julius Caesar, et tu, brute? Then fall, Caesar!
Fight back parents!
It's especially difficult for 10th graders to be exposed when they have the internet on their phones.
I'm suppose one of them may have figured out how to access that stuff but they surely wouldn't share it with their friends.
10th graders have seen on the Internet and on TV for more perverse material.
I understand the frustration of the parents, but this is normal typical average behavior in our American schools.
All the other books we read that year in English class. Plus the rest of the curricula in other classes; Art, science, history, etc.
This has been going on for decades.
1975
( I was in 9th grade)
Clockwork Orange
was in our school library.
When my daughter was in 10th grade I went to pick up her book requirement, and flipped through to find a page describing a woman having sex with a horse. (A Clockwork Orange)
She got the alternative book.
Teens talk amongst themselves even before the internet
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