Posted on 01/24/2010 9:37:48 AM PST by granite
A school district in Riverside County has pulled the Merriam-Webster's 10th edition dictionary from school shelves because it includes the term "oral sex."
The Menifee Union School District took the action last week after a parent complained about the dictionary.
The Press-Enterprise reported that some parents are angry about the move and want the dictionaries returned to classrooms.
"It's just not age-appropriate," said school spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the newspaper. "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature."
The school board will decide later whether to return the dictionaries to the classrooms. One board member told the Press-Enterprise that there are probably more objectionable terms in the dictionary.
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I recall being a teenager, long ago. We talked about sex a lot. Why the fuss over oral sex?
I actually remember owning a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. They took up more space than my computer does now.
I am sure kids learn more from sexting anyway.
By Presidential Proclamation, B/J’s are no longer within the definition of sex.
I don’t think it’s considered flossing, but it’s no longer sex, according the Clinton.
This sucks.
They say teabagger on the news all the time. What’s the difference?
First, I’d have to hear the wording of the definition. Though the subject is adult, the definition could be pretty much devoid of detail.
Second...have these people heard of Google? Unless the entry includes a still from a porn video, it’s not going to be as graphic as a definition that comes up on Google,
The folks who complained may be making a mistake, but one is hardly a “religious zealot” if one doesn’t want a fourth grader getting an education in oral sex.
It’s time for people to grow up and realize that the “Freedom lovers vs. Fascist church ladies” meme is a media invention.
Somebody's kid looked it up, of course, along with all the standard cusswords, and somehow a parent found out about it. It's not like kids haven't been doing that since the invention of the dictionary....
When I was eight I found out how babies were made by looking up “sex” in the Encyclopedia.
I suspect kids are much more savvy these days.
The parent who complained about the dictionary should be flogged for wasting the taxpayers time and money.
Merriam Webster really sucks
***Are these the same nuns who used to cut out pictures in National Geographic?***
I knew a woman years ago who tore out the underwear adds from her Sears Catalog so her kids wouldn’t see them.
This is just my opinion, but kids have been using dictionaries since the start of time to look up naughty words. That tells me that they’ve already been exposed to the concept before getting the dictionary.
Which reminds me of a story about my 7-year-old son. He came home one day and asked me if I had every heard of the “f” word.
I asked him which one. That stumped him for a second, but he regained his composure and said, “The dirty one.”
I told him, “Yes.”
He asked me if I wanted to hear it. I told him that it isn’t appropriate around his mother (who was sitting at the table). So he asked me if he could whisper it in my ear.
I said, “Sure.”
So he leaned over, put his mouth close to my ear, and said, “Fick.”
I almost blew a mouthful of food out of my mouth from laughing so loud.
He didn’t need the dictionary, either.
***So they have homosexual activist in the school ***
When I first heard the word “homosexual” years ago I went to the dictionary to find out what it meant. The definition was so couched in verbal spin I had to look it up in several others to be sure.
When I finally found what it meant I could not believe it! My thoughts rebelled, “That’s not right”! It was still a few years before I could believe it.
Yes, I was raised in a very sheltered home. Two years before that I had heard the word “prostitute” and didn’t know what it meant. It had to do with two popular movies, A walk on the Wild Side and Never on Sunday.
blame the guy that turned “oral sex” into a national debate in the first place; the shameless bill clinton.
Oral sick spoken about to ten year olds is a lat “gift” from thatr pervert bubba.
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