Explicit Novel on Middle School Bookshelf.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
September 3, 2015 7:16am CST
Just read an article from a local news outlet. A local man is outraged after his daughter came to him one day and said "daddy this book is strange." He starts reading the novel, highlighting a few passages that are explicit in nature. He compares the book to a Fifty Shades of Grey book.
Words relating to the female anatomy were used, and scenes that encouraged explicit behavior as well. The local school board pretty much went "meh" on it and said that if a parent has a problem with a book they can take it up with the individual school.
Uh how about NO? The school board needs to deal with it, especially since there are likely several hundred other copies strewn throughout the school district. I am not even sure how the book got past the people whose job it is to review the books, but yeah, seriously?
SERIOUSLY?
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4 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
23 Sep 15
I wasn't aware of this but apparently there is a review team who should have caught the book. I think the worse crime here is that the school district basically said "let the parents deal with it."
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Sep 15
The book had words relating to the female anatomy, and not in a strictly educational purpose. It was smut but written for middle schoolers! I saw part of the book when reading the news article.
@owstalaga (4707)
• Philippines
3 Sep 15
Tsk tsk, those kinds of books shouldn't be in school libraries. It is okay if it was a public library in town or somewhere else but in a school? It is inappropriate unless maybe if they transfer it to a college library at least.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Sep 15
Yes, it would have been different had it been in a public library. I don't know what will come of the situation but I imagine the dad is going to have to get a petition signed and more families involved to get the books removed.
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@phyrre (2317)
• United States
3 Sep 15
I'm always hesitant to really pass judgment on things like this until I have the full story, starting with what the book was! The reason is that I know how crazy people are. For example, people want to remove "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for a myriad of reasons regarding its content, but I would definitely push back on that (though, I wouldn't necessarily encourage middle schoolers to read it, though I wouldn't discourage them, either). Other people want to remove Harry Potter because it relates to witchcraft. So I'm always a bit skeptical.
If it is, however, as bad as he makes it seem, then I would definitely take it to both the school and the school board in case it's a wide-spread thing. Obviously, fixing one school is sort of like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound in this case.
