Posted on 09/14/2005 9:03:21 AM PDT by Stoat
I'm guessing that this long timeframe has to do with the deficient reading skill levels of the committee members.
I haven't read the book, but I'm guessing that there are a number of 'teachers' in this school district who have. What happened to basic professional standards?
What happened to the very strict laws pertaining to exposing minors to pornography?
So, for the next MONTH (at least), the children will continue to be exposed to this until the 'committee' releases it's 'findings'.
I'm wondering if the school district response to this would be the same if the book featured homosexual porn instead?
Just curious.
depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is .......
I read an assigned book that my oldest was given to read. I was taken back by the explicite detail of an actual sexual interlude in a grassy feild, right down to the heel prints in the soft earth...I scanned the pages and sent it to the school board, all members whose emails were listed and waited. I never got a responce, but my son never return home with that book again...
>I'm wondering if the school district response to this would be the same if the book featured homosexual porn instead<
I took Latin 10th - 12th grade and somewhere in there, we had to read a book about the Roman empire that had homosexual implications, and I don't remember anyone complaining or talking to a lawyer. It's a book for Pete's sake. Next thing you know, Tom Sawyer will be homo-erotic because he is a 'cross-dresser'.
This woman needs to sit down and explain things sexual to her daughter (or perhaps have her daughter explain things to her).
The Koran is child porn as well.
It requires a committee and a month to review 4 pages in a crap novel? If I was a student I would remember this the next time I got a homework assignment.
I think there was another "Summertime Reading" book or two that were along the same lines.
Explain to me why a 9 yr old needs to know about oral sex?
Lady, your 11th grade daughter probably knows more about oral sex than you do.
Parental censorship... "porn"? geez.
Parents have a right to decide if something is appropriate for their child. I told one of my daughter's teachers once that she was not reading an assigned book and they let her read another one.
The Department of Education, SIECUS, and Planned Parenthood have been importing porn into the public (and in many cases private) schools for decades. The basic attitude 30 years ago was - If an adult can do the act, it is a right for children to do the same things.
One discussion question was - What about oral sex and foam?
I had no support when I opposed this in a small town decades ago. The Jesuit priest in town also supported it in his school. Some Catholic parents were appalled. They got nowhere. The clergy supported it enthusiastically or through their utter silence.
The 9-year old is the character in the book. The woman's daughter is in 11th grade.
But oral sex isn't "sex". Get a grip! /sarc
My solution: private school or home schooling. You just can't get away from this sh** in the Public Schools.
I got that part. The story is about introducing a 9 yr old to oral sex. You don't see this as child porn?
With great many excellent books available, there is no need to assigne something like this.
May I suggest this woman give her 11th grade daughter "The Story of O" instead?
Suetonius' "Twelve Caesars"?
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