Furious Ohio parents call for teacher to be fired after 10th graders are forced to read 'sex and wickedness' in historical novel 'In The Time of Butterflies'

Daily Mail UK ^ | May 10, 2022 | staff

[Morgana]

arth ping

[mikelets456]

Unless parents pull all their kids from school-—screw them. I’m sorry, that sounds harsh but we did this when we lived in NJ. We had to cut back on almost everything, work extra jobs and over time. There’s too many options but asking government to resolve a government problem IS a losing battle. Pull your kids and fight the taxes.

[Seruzawa]

Too bad the parents didn’t demand that teachers be fired when they let boys in the girls bathroom.

[mmichaels1970]

Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret!

[DesertRhino]

Too many people, especially government officials, have lost the fear they used to have a getting tarred and feathered, beaten, or run out of town on a rail like the colonists did. I believe only three or four decades ago an educator doing this would be at risk of getting shot dead by a parent as a pervert.

The government should’ve seen January 6 as a rattlesnake warning rattle. Instead they have started tormenting the snake to make it stop rattling. This only ends in conflict. A blind man can see it coming.

[The Antiyuppie]

“I believe only three or four decades ago an educator doing this would be at risk of getting shot dead by a parent as a pervert.”

My neighborhood must have been wimpy. An “educator” doing this would have been beaten to the point that they would remember it for a long time and no one would have seen anything.

[TexasGurl24]

https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/in-the-time-of-the-butterflies/

[Nifster]

Because high school students know nothing about sex or wickedness

Some people

[Poison Pill]

When I was in 10th grade we read “The Jungle”. Not excerpts, the whole (uncensored version) book. Among other things it featured, rape, sexual blackmail, prostitution, human trafficking, heroin addition, passed out drunks being eaten by rats, etc. Now I don't know anything about this Butterfly book, but we should be careful not to infantile 16 year olds and then magically expect then to be mature people when they reach the age of majority two years later.

[Morgana]

To quote Thelma Harper “sounds like smut to me”

[Morgana]

we read Julius Caesar, et tu, brute? Then fall, Caesar!

[rrrod]

Fight back parents!

[semimojo]

Because high school students know nothing about sex or wickedness...

It's especially difficult for 10th graders to be exposed when they have the internet on their phones.

I'm suppose one of them may have figured out how to access that stuff but they surely wouldn't share it with their friends.

[Responsibility2nd]

10th graders have seen on the Internet and on TV for more perverse material.

I understand the frustration of the parents, but this is normal typical average behavior in our American schools.

[The Louiswu]

“ When I was in 10th grade we read “The Jungle”.

But where’s the balance?

Life isn’t just drunks getting eaten by rats, whores and drugs, life can be so much better but all I read is that teachers insist on only teaching the dark, harsh side of life, those “let’s get real things” what about something uplifting, morally positive and righteous to offer some perspective to those impressionable teens? If we don’t show our children how life can be, it’s easy to imagine that they won’t feel like they have a real choice in life.

[Poison Pill]

But where's the balance?

All the other books we read that year in English class. Plus the rest of the curricula in other classes; Art, science, history, etc.

[cuz1961]

This has been going on for decades.

1975

( I was in 9th grade)

Clockwork Orange

was in our school library.

[Grammy]

When my daughter was in 10th grade I went to pick up her book requirement, and flipped through to find a page describing a woman having sex with a horse. (A Clockwork Orange)

She got the alternative book.

[Nifster]

Teens talk amongst themselves even before the internet