Is This Book on Your Kid’s Summer Reading List?
Prairie Junior High School’s required reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books to choose from over the summer. Parents have complained that three of the six books contain adult content which is highly age-inappropriate. Those complaints, however, have fallen on deaf ears. At a recent school board meeting, school board members said they intend to continue assigning the books. The following are excerpts from just a handful of the many salacious passages found in one of the books, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going:·God, I want to touch her. Her legs are full. … If I could just reach under that skirt. … (p. 6)
·No one beats me or f—s me without my permission. (p. 11)
·F—k off, morons. (p. 47)
·I swear I’ll tear your g—d*mn, f—ing b*lls off…(p. 57)
·“She’d f—k you if you stay in the band,” he says (p. 141)
·…and now he has promised me that a forty-something woman will sleep with me if I’m the drummer (p. 142)
Classy stuff, Prairie Junior High. Is that how you talk in front of your kids, Principal Gwaltney?
And what did the superintendant have to say when questioned?
I telephoned Robert Berger, superintendent of schools for District 126, fully expecting him to assure me that this foolishness would be remedied. But instead, his response was defiant, defensive and arrogant.
Berger refused to answer me when I asked him several times if District 126 believed that such mature content was appropriate for children. (I wonder; if it’s so appropriate, then why wouldn’t he defend it?)
I asked Berger if one could infer that the district found the material appropriate since it was assigned to children. He quipped, “Infer whatever you want to.”
Here is the entire article here
In one of my posts from yesterday I discussed how the great battle in America today centers on values and whose values will under gird our Nation- the religion of the moral relativist Humanists (primarly on the Left) or Judeo-Christianity on which this nation was founded. Will books like this become the norm for 12 year olds? Or will the parents reject this blatant peddling of smut which is nothing less than a form of mind molestation? And people wonder why parents yank their kids out of these government run indoctrination camps fast enough?
August 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I’m glad my kids went to a middle school that taught phonics and whole language together, math where they had to do problems, and had summer reading lists that weren’t trying to be “street smart”. Oh yeah, it was in La Mesa, California (believe it or not) in San Diego county. Imagine a CA school having better values than in middle America.
September 1st, 2007 at 9:33 pm
We need school choice. People who care about their kids’ moral upbringing need to get them out of public schools. Even having to pay twice (taxes plus tuition), it’s worth the sacrifice. We’ve sent our kids to Christian school since kindergarten and are so glad we did! If we couldn’t afford it, we’d homeschool.
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