No one had previously complained. Perhaps they were underprotective parents?

Do you ever hear of school boards doing things well?

You're right. A 9th grade girl plays with unicorn dolls and has never ever ever thought about sex one time or ever talked to her friends and no one in 9th grade has had sex or touched another person sexually and if I keep her from reading two paragraphs in a book about sex she will stay a virgin forever and be daddy's little girl until I ascend to heaven without dying.

Horrible editor. They spelled cum wrong.

Come on dummy... there's a huge difference between that and school required reading. Nobody is saying teens don't think about sex or get exposed to sex.

That line of thought becomes a slippery slope then. Maybe they should start reading about this kind of stuff in 8th grade, I mean it's only one year's difference.

An institution doesn't need to be pushing that kind of material on students. If they want to learn about sex that's for their own time out of school.

By all means, lets educate them about force and coercion. Completely healthy...

I agree. I listed the teacher as stupid for requiring the reading, too. But of course everyone is ignoring that.

This. No fuggn' WAY I would have sat still for that crap being given to my kid to read by the school.

I'm at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to these types of situations.

On the one hand, I understand that this book was definitely "unnecessarily graphic" and probably shouldn't be a required reading..

But on the other, I would never want to be the overprotective parent that shelters his children.

I remember knowing and even fantasizing about sex as far back as elementary school. Perhaps that's due to my lax upbringing, but even my friends knew and talked about t often. You can shield your kids only for so long. At some point they're going to start hearing about it more and more from their peers and then there will be nothing you can do for them. I guess the best thing is to be open and talk about the dangers involved and hope they make the best decision about it when the time comes.

I think it's because calling the father overprotective is more stupider...

Exactly why I hide my Barely Legal's under my mattress so my kids can't see this kind of filth. Plus, they're only here every other weekend, so...

Oh no, semen! Hide your children, quick. All parties are dumb. For the record, I have a 9th grade daughter

I read the article 3 times and still don't know exactly why he was arrested.