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Maybe she didn't want the kids to get any ideas. In the school district where I work, an eighth grade girl was caught having oral sex with three different boys in science class! The teacher was in the room but he was otherwise occupied with his computer <hmmmm>.
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« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2008, 06:58:01 PM » |
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And you know it's only going to make the kids run to the library to see what they are missing. They will know it's good stuff lol.
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« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2008, 07:04:48 PM » |
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Stupid. Just stupid. And heck, for those students who seem impossible to motivate in terms of reading, if that would get their noses in a book for a while...  |
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« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2008, 07:31:50 PM » |
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Stupid. Just stupid. And heck, for those students who seem impossible to motivate in terms of reading, if that would get their noses in a book for a while...  |
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« Reply #29 on: December 09, 2008, 07:46:27 PM » |
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when I was in high school, my host hosted some kind of district middle school event and two 'couples' were caught in the bathroom over the course of the event. It wasn't event the high schoolers. It was the tweens.
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« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2008, 07:48:10 PM » |
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I can't say I'm surprised. After all humans were involved.
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« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2008, 12:18:56 AM » |
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The puritanical views of the USA never fail to amaze me, and I was born here. How a country can be more offended by nudity and sex than by horrific violence is just baffling to me. And that's all I have to say.  Ditto! And also DITTO to the previously expressed point of *why* would a teacher choose a book for his/her class to study and then also choose to subject said book to their own censorship?! Huh?! No makes no sense to me. (A handbasket, I tell ya, just a swift and nifty handbasket...) |
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« Reply #32 on: December 10, 2008, 09:34:35 AM » |
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Censorship! This is a very sore subject with me. I am very much against it. The only person that has any right to censor me is me. I can rant and rave forever about how wrong I feel censorship is.
When it comes to minors, its the parent's job to censor their children. It's not the school's or the government's job, it's the parent's job.
To mutilate a book by ripping out pages or scribbling in it with a black sharpie is a horrible offense, bordering on blasphemy! I find that very upsetting.
I can understand making a PG-13 edition of a book if they have to. I don't like it but it's better than the ripping of pages.
The assignment mentioned in the first post is invalid. How can the students compare the book to the movie when they don't have the full book to work with?
This country is supposed to be based on freedom. One of those freedoms is freedom of choice. This is the tricky part it seems. Most people today don't seem to be able to make their own choices. They seem to want the government to make all of the choices for them.
Hmmm seems like I've read a book or two about a situation just like this...I think they are banned now.
Do not give up your right to chose. If something on TV offends you, there are 5-600 other channels to watch. If a product is offensive, don't buy it. Do not presume to tell me or other people what we can and cannot do though. It's our choice.
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« Reply #33 on: December 10, 2008, 09:55:01 AM » |
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The puritanical views of the USA never fail to amaze me, and I was born here. How a country can be more offended by nudity and sex than by horrific violence is just baffling to me. And that's all I have to say. That’s what makes this country so wonderful. It was pioneered by Puritans and Quakers but they had the foresight to establish it on a bedrock principle of inclusion. Free speech was unheard of before Franklin, Adams, Jefferson and all those stiff collars had the audacity to propose it. |
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« Reply #34 on: December 10, 2008, 10:42:58 AM » |
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Too true. No where in the constitution does it say that we have the right to not be offended. The right s in the constitution state what we can do not what we can do. In fact it specifically states what the government cannot do. The whole situation is completely ridiculous.
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« Reply #35 on: December 10, 2008, 10:46:06 AM » |
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Too true. No where in the constitution does it say that we have the right to not be offended. The right s in the constitution state what we can do not what we can do. In fact it specifically states what the government cannot do. The whole situation is completely ridiculous.
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« Reply #36 on: December 10, 2008, 11:09:05 AM » |
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« Reply #37 on: December 10, 2008, 11:12:13 AM » |
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If you email me the original I’ll try to edit it so it shows as it should and email it back to you. My email address is exposed in my profile.
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