Lion wasn't paying attention during the employee orientation Both houses of the Virginia General Assembly have passed a bill requiring teachers to give advance notice to parents of "sexually explicit" passages in assigned reading, and to make alternate assignments available to parents who don't want their Special Snowflakes exposed to anything too raunchy. The legislation,
We got in in 9th grade, and we had to use a special bowdlerized copy missing (naturally) more than half the text. The teacher regretfully informed us that she wasn't allowed to supply the missing bits, but did hint that unexpurgated copies were in the library...
So, every week, one of us took turns looking up the original version, and filling the rest of us in on the dirty (or even mildly suggestive) bits the editors saw fit to cut out. Oh, the things one learns from an annotated copy of R&J...
Now will he sit under a medlar treeAnd wish his mistress were that kind of fruitAs maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she wereAn open-arse, and thou a poperin pear!
I remember reading a book called Growing Up Catholic where the author decided to check out a library book from the religious school she attended, because she figured it would make her look good in the eyes of her teachers. Just about all they had were lives of the saints, so she chose the one with the most interesting-looking title: Confessions of St. Augustine.
However, she didn't make it out of the school with the book: one of the Sisters asked what she was reading, looked horrified when she saw what it was, and snatched it away, exclaiming that that book shouldn't have been available to students!
Great, thought the author-to-be. I try to impress them by reading about a saint, and I pick a dud! He's such a bad saint, they don't want us to know about him!
So by all means, let the young'uns read some church history. =^.^=
My 14 year old read the Outsiders this year. There was outrage at /that/. I am not surprised some uptight wench who wants to force her morality on everyone else would find Beloved objectionable.
My eldest, thank goodness it was the eldest, was looking over my shoulder and caught the horse image you posted above.I would sue you or run about raging and forcing a law or something, except I really oughta know better than to Wonkette when chillin's are present. And, he is 14 so it is probably nothing his friends have not showed him memes of.
I read "Growing Up Catholic." Funny book. I liked the chapter on "Father What-A-Waste" = the gorgeous hunky young priest that all the Catholic girls had a crush on, who was probably gay.
We got in in 9th grade, and we had to use a special bowdlerized copy missing (naturally) more than half the text. The teacher regretfully informed us that she wasn't allowed to supply the missing bits, but did hint that unexpurgated copies were in the library...
So, every week, one of us took turns looking up the original version, and filling the rest of us in on the dirty (or even mildly suggestive) bits the editors saw fit to cut out. Oh, the things one learns from an annotated copy of R&J...
Now will he sit under a medlar treeAnd wish his mistress were that kind of fruitAs maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she wereAn open-arse, and thou a poperin pear!
One of my favorites too! :0-)
You would not believe the phone calls I get.
The book that semester was The Handmaid's Tale *facepalm* so yes, yes I would.
I remember reading a book called Growing Up Catholic where the author decided to check out a library book from the religious school she attended, because she figured it would make her look good in the eyes of her teachers. Just about all they had were lives of the saints, so she chose the one with the most interesting-looking title: Confessions of St. Augustine.
However, she didn't make it out of the school with the book: one of the Sisters asked what she was reading, looked horrified when she saw what it was, and snatched it away, exclaiming that that book shouldn't have been available to students!
Great, thought the author-to-be. I try to impress them by reading about a saint, and I pick a dud! He's such a bad saint, they don't want us to know about him!
So by all means, let the young'uns read some church history. =^.^=
Oh dear.
My 14 year old read the Outsiders this year. There was outrage at /that/. I am not surprised some uptight wench who wants to force her morality on everyone else would find Beloved objectionable.
Fuck, they've already sexted all that crap to their friends a hundred thousand times.
My eldest, thank goodness it was the eldest, was looking over my shoulder and caught the horse image you posted above.I would sue you or run about raging and forcing a law or something, except I really oughta know better than to Wonkette when chillin's are present. And, he is 14 so it is probably nothing his friends have not showed him memes of.
I read "Growing Up Catholic." Funny book. I liked the chapter on "Father What-A-Waste" = the gorgeous hunky young priest that all the Catholic girls had a crush on, who was probably gay.
But isn't this... POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?
why are children learning about anal? - you christians brought it on yourselves -
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I'm trying to picture the kind of 17-18 year old kid who goes to his mother and complains about the nightmares he has after reading a book.
Do these idiots realize how much they are pushing kids to reading these books come hell or highwater?
He probably said the book was a nightmare, and he didn't like AP English.
Upfist for use of the word knaves.