It was a movie...I'm sure they've all seen it...Yawn.
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"Maine Parents, Advocates Upset Over Explicit Novel Approved for High Schoolers"
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certainly there's more interesting reading than "Girl Interrupted." I loved the movie, didn't read the book, but can think of other books more interesting and less offensive: The Red Tent, The Time Traveler's Wife, etc.
Your kids are going to read this and no, you don't ahve the right to stop it.
At least that the way the socialists want it.
Pull 'em out. Home school 'em. Or do a Co-op, bunch of Parents poll their funds and hire a teacher to home school the kids.
Frankly, I'm more upset that they are wasting space and time on the cirriculum with forgettable junk like this when there's a whole canon of great Western literature that most kids aren't exposed to.
You know it is funny how schools are attempting to censor children for blogging offensive statements about the teachers and principal. Yet at the same time these same teachers and pricipals use free speech when they put offensive materials in school curriculum.
Only one solution for the town, dump the school board. For individuals they can homeschool, move or send kids to private school.
Maybe they want something that will interest the students. People have wanted to ban "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Huck Finn" from schools also. I doubt "Girl Interrupted" is on the same level as these books, but I still don't think people should complain every time their is language or sexual content in a book. What book doesn't have sexual content?
What disturbs me is that they are reading fifth-rate junk like this instead of the classics that used to be read in our schools.
When I was in ninth grade we read "Anna Karenina." It also has some disturbing ideas in it. But it's a great novel, with a serious moral point of view, revealing what the consequences of adultery are.
"Girl Interrupted" is just plain junk.
There must be some homosexual theme, too. The schools just don't care what the parents think.
No need to worry. By the sounds of it most kids even in high school can't read. Must be pictures in the book.
The school board members need to go bye bye.
Removing it from the library would be censorship. Removing it from all curricula would be common sense.
This book contains pornographic scenes, and pornography must not be forced on minors.
Second, the book tells a compelling story based on a real-life story of a young girl who was committed to a mental hospital in the 1960s for her sexual escapades. It debates the double-standards of sexual activities of young men and young women. There is no actual sexually explicit material in the book.
Finally, are these parents THAT naive to think that their precious children are being exposed to sexual topics for the first time in 9th grade? This is just another Christian pro-concorship group trying to get publicity. Get over it! Biology books are more explicit than Girl, Interrupted
what happened to reading the classics? Leave novels like this in the library for students who chose to read it...
When are people going to pull their kids from PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
What are YOU waiting for?
It doesn't matter to schools what YOU think!
"The Orono School Committee recently voted to retain the controversial novel Girl Interrupted in the ninth grade English literature class at Orono High School."
Think this book is bad? Go to your local public library and check out some of the pornographic material available there. Ask if they have anything by Anne Rice. The library is highly recommended by most school teachers, as well as parents.
With the movies kids are watching today whats a bit of profanity in a book.
Maybe it should be rated PG17.