[Maelstorm]

Better keep your eye on your schools folks with gay marriage comes even more of this crap.

[Clintonfatigued]

Look, here’s another one.

[Travis McGee]

Homo perverts used to lurk in public toilets. Now they run our public schools.

[Cowboy Bob]

When I was in Junior High School, “Go Ask Alice” was required reading.

[FlingWingFlyer]

PMSNBC’s Shyster will be all over this tomorrow. Nah.

[LongElegantLegs]

‘Short story’...Writer talk for ‘I was too high to develop this concept into a real story’.

[supremedoctrine]

David Sedaris has been gay for a long long time.
99% of his writing has NO gay content.
AND he is quite simply one of America’s best and funniest writers.

[swmobuffalo]

Parents doing what parents should have been doing all along. Holding the teachers accountable. Had this been going on since the 60’s, some public schools wouldn’t be the cesspools they are now.

And the liberals wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Oh man. Well, I’m sure I’m alone here in saying I love Sedaris’ work! I disagree with him on many things but I think he’s funny as h*ll. BUT his work is in no way appropriate for high school kids! Serious lapse of judgment there. I’d be incensed if my kids were *assigned* his work to read in HS. It’s adult fare only.

[Tired of Taxes]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[happinesswithoutpeace]

I read “Survivor Type” when I was young. Strong story.

[Psalm 73]

"....Shorts Stories teacher Meredith Potter...."

What ever happened to Thurber, Hawthorne, Kipling.......?

[Condor51]

Litchfield school officials reacted swiftly to an outcry from parents concerned about stories students were assigned to read in a Campbell High School English class.

"Some of these stories contained explicit, vulgar and gratuitous language and school administrators have determined that these stories are not appropriate for a high school curriculum,"

I'm getting olllllllld.
When I was in HS back in the 60's, having 'Catcher In The Rye' would get you suspended for a week, 'Lolita' was banned outright and even 'Catch-22' would get you a raised eyebrow.

But on the up side, back then we didn't have perverts and commies running the schools (Chicago)

[TomOnTheRun]

I've read the Hemmingway in question (I've only heard Sidaris on the radio) and they just don't seem that bad in comparison to stuff I read at that age. I attended a Catholic school and read Candide in my soph. year. Voltaire seems MUCH more extreme than anything those fellows would write.

I'm not sure this should be that much of a problem for high-schoolers. In 12-18 months most of them will be expected to read such material for literature studies at university without being freaked out. General character and outlook of teenagers seems formed enough by that time to resist degredation merely from knowing that these things exist. I'm not sure that an extra 12 months would make the difference.

[wbill]

I read "Survivor Type" when I was in HS. It's an unsettling story, but nothing horrific. I've no idea why it would belong in the classroom, though.

David Sedaris is overrated. Mrs WBill reads him, I've picked up her books once in awhile. He's a gay man that's mistaken Bitchy, Snarky Comments for biting wit. Think a Gay David Spade, times 10.

No idea why Sedaris would be in a classroom, either.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Bravo! Keep the pressure on the schools, and don’t give up the fight. All that’s required for evil to succeed...