You ain't kiddin' we're swimming against the tide. This is what I went through recently:
All 5 of my kids are in a private Christian school. My 15 year old daughter had a required reading book from history class called, The State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe. Knowing who Mapplethorpe is (a pornographer) I picked the book up to see what my daughter would need to know about that freak. Chapter 1, page 1 discusses Mapplethorpes photo of a man urinating into the mouth of another man. I kept reading and found "Annie Sprinkle's performance art consisting of masturbating on stage, then inviting the patrons to come up and view her genitalia with a flashlight."
The school defends the book, saying the kids need to be instructed in what is not "Christian art." I'm of the opinion any idiot could figure that out and our kids will not be going back to that school.
You try so hard to protect your kids from smut but it's being thrown in their faces at every possible chance.
This is horrifying. I have small kids.
Mapplethorpe is disgusting. I don't care what he does in private, but selling his pornography as art? It's lacking in any moral taste and judgement, and is therefore worthless as art.
That anyone might buy it astounds me. But showing it to young people? The teacher should be dismissed out of hand.
Bring the book to a school function, and at some point during the evening, get it out and start reading portions of it in a very loud voice to the assembled parents. At the very least, a discussion would ensue.
Whoa, in a private Christian school? And the school defends such a text. Why are they studying Art in History Class anyway?
That is just sad and frightening.