"Do you have kids?"
"Are kids a requirement these days?"
If you do have kids and don't mind them reading books that are sexually explicit, that is your business and yours alone. I do think teachers should be required to inform parents of what books are assigned for reading. Our kids, contrary to what the left believes, still belong to their parents!
I entirely agree with you. Kids belong to their parents.
However, do a small group of parents have the right to determine the reading material kids (who no doubt belong to other parents)can and cannot read?
That's the real issue here. If every parent of that 9th grade class stormed the school board meeting rending their clothing and screaming in anguish that their kids were being exposed to sex, then I'd say "Great, replace the book." But when a small group of parents try to impose their personal views on the majority, then I have a problem with that...