[KantianBurke]

better make sure not to teach any Shakespeare or Homer. Plenty of naughty words and scenarios in those works. (sarcasm off) One thing that sticks out about "parents" like these is that parenting is an occupation they rarely ever engage in. Hence on the rare occasion that they do act like Moms and Dads they go overboard about inanities. Dollars to donuts that while these folks are bitching, their children are off smoking pot or having sex.

[theFIRMbss]

>For example, some parents cite a description of the girl's rape by her father...

Gee, generations
grew up reading Tom Swift and
Nancy Drew, and those

books didn't include
any father-daughter rapes.
Was that a big flaw?!

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

We can send our high school aged children off to be maimed or die a violent death in a war but horror of horrors if they read something naughty.

[ikka]

There is plenty of wonderful writing from American authors. Toni Morrison is a hack; but since she is black, she gets a pass.

[Question_Assumptions]

If this book is anythink like her book Sula, which I was required to read in a college lit course, I don't think it belongs anywhere near children. Or adults for that matter. Parakeets, maybe, or puppies being housebroken.