This one made me chuckle....

To be frank I don't even remember.....it wasn't about whether or not I thought it was a book that should be recommended/mandated to be read, it was more about whether or not I thought she was prepared for handling the message of the book.

You know...they are kids and sometimes they don't all assimilate things the same way emotionally/mentally.

It was my choice as a parent, and I don't see any real mental/physical scars she has borne from not being able to read it.

So we're having a disussion about the book, not the officer?

Depends on the school.

WHAT!?!?!

I PROTEST THIS WAR ON CHRISTMAS

A sizable chunk of the students I teach at the college level aren't prepared to handle the message of most texts I assign them, and it's not like I'm dishing out Gravity's Rainbow, either.

Nothing to see here about the gestapo cop. Paid administrative leave. Maybe a promotion. Move along.

Thats truly the bigger story and issue. I only used the COP thing as a headline grabber.

The cop was only following orders. The story mentions that its not even normal for a cop to be at the meetings and he was never replaced after they left. The school board obviously knew something was going to go down.

Yeah....but to me there is a big difference in the mental makeup of a Freshman in HS and a college student.

There are books that I have no issue with my daughter reading now that she is preparing to head to college.....but when she was a Freshman I just didn't believe she was prepared for it.

There certainly is a difference in maturity, but from my own experience I can tell you that I have encountered several people with doctorates who were so close-minded/myopic that they couldn't process certain transgressive texts.

With that said, many classics are racier than people want to give them credit for.

For example, you will not encounter a filthier piece of popularly-taught literature than The Canterbury Tales.

You've evidently met some graduates of Bob Jones University....:D

Bob Jones U!