Gonna do this Scotty style! Originally Posted By: BobaliciousSchool district pulls Anne Frank’s diary over ‘vagina’ passage Anne Frank's adolescent curiosity about sexuality is too much for a Virginia school district that has pulled the complete version of the young Jewish girl's diary off its curriculum and off its shelves over a parent's complaint about sexually explicit passages.Culpeper County Public Schools has pulled Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition off the shelves because parents complained "over the sexual nature of the vagina passage in the definitive edition," reports the Culpeper, Virginia, Star-Exponent.The complaint has to do specifically with an expanded version of the diary published in 1995. Frank's father, Otto, had excised large parts of his daughter's diary prior to publication in the late 1940s. Anne died of typhus while being held at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March, 1945. Her diary has made her arguably the most famous Holocaust victim.According to Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post, the offending passage is a description of female genitalia:"There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can't imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!"The decision to pull the book appears to have been made quickly, last November, on the basis of one complaint from a parent. The Star-Exponent reports:"Citing a parent’s concern over the sexual nature of the vagina passage in the definitive edition, Allen said school officials immediately chose to pull this version and use an alternative copy."“What we have asked is that this particular edition will not be taught,” Allen said from his office Wednesday morning.“I’m happy when parents get involved with these things because it lets me know that they are really looking and have their kids’ best interest (in mind). And that’s where good parenting and good teaching comes in.”Amazon.com lists Anne Frank's diary as one of the most banned children's books, "for being too depressing for students." The diary chronicles some two years of Frank's life as she hid out with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during World War II. It is considered one of the most famous and vivid accounts of the war.But the American Library Association says it has documented only six challenges to the book since 1990. Originally Posted By: BobaliciousSoCal school district bans the dictionary Southern California's Menifee Union school district has banned the Merriam Webster's 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth grade classes, over this salacious definition of "oral sex": "oral stimulation of the genitals"."It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.While some parents have praised the move - "[it's] a prestigious dictionary that's used in the Riverside County spelling bee, but I also imagine there are words in there of concern," said Randy Freeman - others have raised concerns. "It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground," father Jason Rogers told local press. "You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina."
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wow, one little passage and they pull it? AND the fuckin dictionary?! a book whose sole purpose is to define the words we use? god some people are just so stuck up their own ass its insane
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I wonder if the new dictionary of choice includes "murder", "rape", "torture", etc. You know, all that stuff that is preferable to oral sexOnce again, we find that America is scared shitless of sex!Poor Anne Frank. She had to suffer at the hands of one set of Nazis and new her diary has to suffer at the hands of another set.
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I'm not a big fan of how uptight America is about sex and to some degree how overprotective parents can be. Although the good side of that is some parents are taking a very active role in their childrens education.I'm going to school to be a social sciences teacher and all I hear about is how rediculously careful we have to be of what we teach. When it comes down to it, if I make one small mistake based on the opinion that my students can handle the information, but I neglect to tell parents, then I can easily lose my job.I personally find that passage from the diary alittle too explicit but it really depends on the age group that it is presented to. From what I remember of when I was in school, that book was read anywhere between 5th and 8th grade. As a teacher I wouldn't consider using that version with any students under 8th grade.Banning the dictionary on the other hand? Just flat out rediculous.
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I agree...banning the dictionary is rediculous. But rewriting history is heinous.
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Originally Posted By: thor
I agree...banning the dictionary is rediculous. But rewriting history is heinous.
yes sir!!!
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