Posted on 01/27/2010 11:19:13 AM PST by markomalley
A California school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes.
It's the dictionary.
The Golden State's Menifee Union School District has yanked all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary from its shelves and is investigating the classic American text for containing "age-inappropriate" words.
The trouble started when an inquisitive student got lost somewhere between "oralism" and "orang" and found a rather recent entry to the lexicon: "oral sex," a phrase that has been in common parlance since 1973 but still makes many parents fairly hot under the collar.
Menifee administrators chose to leave their lexicons languishing after a parent at Oak Meadows Elementary School complained about a child finding the definition, which reads, rather clinically: "oral stimulation of the genitals."
Now, more than 200 years after Noah Webster slashed the Us from British colours and honours in his very first American dictionary, this Riverside County school district 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles is looking to slash a little more.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
but it’s not sex, remember.
Some people think ignorance is bliss. Some also want to enforce ignorance.
Or, “How can I keep the boys on the farm, now that they have seen gay Pariee!”
Well, it is a collegiate dictionary. Need an elementary definition in its place like: Something mommies and daddies do after they are married sans the stick figures.
The very concept of having government schools at all should sound First Amendment alarm bells. Government schools and the First Amendment and freedom of conscience are utterly incompatible!
Let’s examine this one issue:
There are only **two** possible choices for this government school. They allow the collegiate level dictionaries or they ban them. It is a binary decision. No matter which decision is made the freedom of conscience ( and likely the religious beliefs) of some of the parents **will** be trampled.
It is ***IMPOSSIBLE** for the government resolve this conflict in a religiously, culturally, or politically neutral manner!
As for the taxpayer they will be forced to pay for it regardless of their religious, political, or cultural beliefs.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.
You mean something mommies and daddies STOP doing after they are married? ;o)
Man, there's a great tagline in there somewhere!
ping
"Johnny, I better not catch you reading that filthy dictionary again! Don't make me come out there!"
Ditto! “What food kills a woman’s sex drive ? Weding cake.” Sheeeeesh I can’t believe i’ve stooped so low.
Well, the decision sucks...
There are still some wives who take care of their husbands.
I have a wonderful wife. I was just playing with the thread.
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