P. S., these books are sick!

New York Daily News ^ | 12/7/06 | BY RACHEL SCHEIER and CARRIE MELAGO

[r9etb]

The poem "I Hate School" in a book called "You Hear Me?" includes the rhyme, "F--- this s---, up the a--. I don't think I'll ever pass."

That there's art. Real good stuff. I am outraged.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Henry Miller is a much better read for sixth-graders.

When I was in the 4th grade, I found a torn-up copy of The Exorcist on the school bus. I brought it home and read it in about four days. I have been effed up ever since.

[bondjamesbond]

Most Catholic of private schools offer tuition assistance to people who truly can't afford to sent their children to their schools. The rest of the parents just have to re-shuffle their priorities. Maybe tuition has to come before the new car and the big-screen TV.

Or you can let your precious little ones fall prey to the worst the public school system can think up. It's not going to get any better, you know...

[CholeraJoe]

any parent who puts a child in public school deserves whatever they get.

I got an Air Force Academy Cadet.

Some people don't have a choice. Single moms working nights at a Nursing Home for $6.28 an hour can't afford private school and are sometimes too proud to go on welfare (or academically impaired) to homeschool.

[Churchillspirit]

God and Christmas are taboo, but this tripe is O.K.?

There has to be a backlash against this craziness. There just has to be.

[L98Fiero]

"because it is the only anthology with poems written by minority teenagers, said Lucy Calkins, its founding director."

Poems? Right. Sure.

[bondjamesbond]

There has to be a backlash against this craziness. There just has to be.

Lots of parents are voting with their feet. Private and parochial school enrollment goes up, year after year.

[nothingnew]

"It's a tricky balance to walk so we are putting books in their hands that they'll want to read," said Calkins, who had not seen the language in the book.

hahahaha!!!! She recommends books she never read! Hahahahaha!!!!!

WTF?

FMCDH(BITS)

[dfwgator]

"You want poems, I got some f'in poems."

[beezdotcom]

More precisely, I think it begins "Dark and lonely on a summer night..."

Also, don't forget his poem "I Hate White People"...

I hate the sunlight and I hate the night.
I hate white people because they is white.
Their hair is wavy, their lips is thin,
But worse than white women, I hate white men.
Walking around with briefcase and money,
Bust they head open, my ain't that funny?
Not out of anger and not out of spite.
I just hate whitey because they is white.
W-I-T-E people.

[Thrownatbirth]

I had to wait eight years to join the military so I could find that nightclub in Paris.

[Neoliberalnot]

If you can't market sexual deviance to kids how can the homosexuals enhance their opportunities to molest? This is merely about preparing kids for easy access by the loving homosexual community. Disgusting sarc.

[little jeremiah]

Later pingout.

[bondjamesbond]

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to her cupboard
To give her poor dog a bone...

[bondjamesbond]

Xenalyte needs to ping the Salacious Ping List... if it is worthy.

[Logophile]

Needless to say, any parent who puts a child in public school deserves whatever they get.

Nonsense. The parents deserve to get good schools: that is what the taxpayers are paying for.

If you favor homeschooling or private schools as superior alternatives to public schools, you will get no argument from me. But most families still send their children to public schools. So long as we are paying good money to the public schools, we have every right to demand that they meet our expectations.

[dfwgator]

Little Boy Blue

He needed the money!

[bondjamesbond]

So long as we are paying good money to the public schools, we have every right to demand that they meet our expectations.

Demand away. See how far it gets you.

Public schools are controlled by the political process, which has a nasty habit of coming up with really inappropriate stuff. This should come as a surprise to no-one.

Furthermore, public schools are staffed with union-member lifers, who seem to be almost universally liberal and in favor of this sort of nonsense.

Public schools should be better, but they are not. When parents make the decision of where to send their children to school, they have to look at the local public school as it is, not as they wish it would be.

[ElkGroveDan]

A lot of parents can't afford private school or homeschool.

I can't afford private Christian School. We're in our 8th year there. Man it hurts. But when I read stories like this it makes it all worthwhile.

[gb63]

"I have been effed up ever since."
That's because you should not have tried rotating your head like in the book....