Posted on 05/10/2022 11:08:38 AM PDT by Morgana
A group of furious Ohio parents want a high school teacher fired after their children were given a historical book to read, which they claim is filled with 'sex and wickedness'.
The 10th grade students at Milford High School, in Milford, were required to read passages of 'In The Time of Butterflies' by Julia Alvarez aloud in class, according to one parent.
The book is a fictional account of the Dominican Republic's Trujillo dictatorship in the 1960s, and follows the Mirabel sisters. The novel was adapted into a film in 2001, and was rated PG-13.
In a Facebook post, irate parent Amy Boldt K wrote: 'THIS CONTENT IS EXPLICIT! Our 10th graders are being forced to read this pornography in school! I am disgusted beyond words.
Boldt told parents, who were just as appalled as she was, to contact the principal. She also demanded that the teacher be removed from the school.
She also posted an excerpt of the book, which includes the female protagonists being sexually assaulted, and another girl banding her breasts to keep them from growing, out of fear it would bring unwanted attention from men.
'This is only a small content of the book [sic],' Boldt wrote. 'Are you concerned yet, parents?? Time for action.'
Boltd's post garnered mixed reaction with some furious like she was, while others showed support for the school and calling out those ridiculing parents to stay more on top of their kids.
Darba Bowers said: 'This requires immediate corrective action! You don't have to have a child in school to protest. Your taxes support our public schools!'
Ro Wilson said: 'Wow! That was rated R I can see why kids would be uncomfortable to read this! Wtf.'
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Even before they're teens.
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An important issue here apparently is that the students were reading parts of this book aloud in class. Apparently passages that made them uncomfortable.
And no doubt the book comes with liberal atheist agendas.
Wow, I read that in HS and don’t all thi cool stuff
Yup
I think your priorities are the priorities of responsible parents. An inspiration.
Same here.
You did the right thing.
We, too, struggled to put eight kids through Catholic schools.
Today, they thank me for it.
Sounds like a cheesy, overwrought Latino soap opera.
Why don’t teenagers read Shakespeare, Dickens, or Thackeray anymore?
I get it, but regular TV might be worse
This kind of abuse of young, impressionable minds has got to be fully explored by behavioral professionals to determine if there are any harmful effects from the use of these materials.
The only problem is that some of these professionals are wacko as the materials in question.
Where can we find rational mental/emotional health professionals that we can trust? I’m having a lot of questions about how to resolve this problem.
Amen. Many of these parents who complain to the school boards continue to deliver their children to the same schools day after day.
Interesting how times have changed. Did parents complain about Judy Blume’s books when they were first published in the 1970’s? I don’t think so.
There were many books we as kids read that might be deemed controversial today. But, at least the teachers weren’t assigning those books to us in class.
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