Posted on 11/12/2011 2:49:57 PM PST by markomalley
Parents of Emerson Elementary in Compton, California, are up in arms over the school’s decision to invite former porn star Sasha Grey to read to a group of first and third-grade students, at an National Education Association-sponsored event called Read Across America.
TMZ obtained photos of the event, but when they contacted school administrators, they were less than forthcoming about the decision to invite the winner of the 2010 AVN award for best anal sex scene. The award is sponsored and presented by the adult video industry trade magazine Adult Video News.
The school district flatly denied inviting the former porn star, telling TMZ, “we have several celebrities who read to our students each year. The actress you have indicated [Sasha] was not present.”
But Grey herself tweeted about the experience.
“Spent the am with Read Across America Compton, reading to the sweetest 1st & 3rd grade students @ Emerson Elementary,” read a November 2nd post.
Grey is an author herself, having published “Neu Sex,” a collection of artistic photos and essays, back in March.
After the photos were released, she defended her decision to participate in a statement, saying “I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am. I will not live in fear of it. To challenge non-profit education programs is an exercise in futility, counter-productive and anti-educational.”
Perhaps the administrators initially thought that Grey’s recent career change toward more mainstream roles made her a more appropriate elementary school guest. The actress, who once won a Best Oral Sex award for her film “Throat: A Cautionary Tale,” has since acted in a film directed by Steven Soderbergh and appeared regularly in HBO’s Entourage.
“From now on I will not be playing roles where I play a version of myself, or a hooker, for a very long time,” she told Fox News. “I think ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ and ‘Entourage’ were the best places to play those two roles and it can’t get any better. I don’t want to repeat myself, and I think if I continue to take those types of roles I will only be given those roles.”
“The National Education Association and their local partners should take steps to insure that the Read Across America program does not introduce children to notorious performers of pornography,” Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council told The Daily Caller. “Parents have every right to be outraged about her appearance.”
But Frederick Hess, and education policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute doesn’t see what the big deal is.
“If she was talking about adult films or other inappropriate subjects, thats obviously another question. But only problem I have with this … is the district’s lack of candor,” he told TheDC.
Emerson Elementary School principal Sydney Ritchey-Burnett and the NEA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to the NEA’s website, Read Across America is “an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss.”
She read “Dog Breath,” by Dave Pilkey.
FR isn’t what it once was. I can’t browse the threads without finding leftist liberals (atheist libertarians) advocating porn sluts for role models in schools etc.. Might as well be reading DU.. That’s why I don’t post much here anymore. There’s twice as many liberals posting here on FR as conservatives and the owner must like it that way...
Have u ever seen her gang bangs? She is disgusting even to me.
Totally dead eyes...
She makes the girls I saw on quaaludes in the 70s and their freak stuff seem tame....
Really...she had no more place reading to kids than a truck stop whore or Penn State athletic dept employee has
I'd met Cab Calloway after a school assembly, and didn't have a clue who he was until years later.
I agree with you, Harry. There was a glaring example of what you say yesterday on a thread that was pulled.
I’m going to take a long break from FR. The people who “get it” already got it, and those who refuse to “get it” won’t, no matter what anyone says or does.
IMO (note my new tagine) war is coming, one way or another, financial and economic collapse, probably internal wars or whatever - I hope you and yours are stocked up and prepared. Have you read Travis McGee’s books? I think they’re a very realistic assesment of what may come to pass.
You’re hopeless and part of the problem.
Sluts and whores should not be around children reading to them.
It’s really simple; character and morality count. Good and evil exist. What people do with their lives and the choices they make have a difference in the outcome of their own lives and those who they influence.
The fact that you support and promote the lowest of the low reveals everything I need to know about you.
Yes, I own all Travis’ books and I live in an area where weather (hurricane) can shut everything down for two or three weeks at a time, no power, no place to buy fuel, etc. I have enough experience with that to know if the shtf it will be very ugly. I have 50 acres, armed to the teeth and prepared for anything/everything. :0)
I would have to be present to have first hand ears to the situation... lets see how articulate she is before! ...we pass judgement!...
If they're not curious about their world and the things the school exposes them to the school isn't doing much of a job of inspiring them to learn.
Good orators are hard to come up with in a pinch.....
So you’re not in favor of burning whores at the stake, just shunning them. Ok then.
One more shot at this and I'm probably done with this issue. Without invoking any supernatural entities, exactly what do you think will happen if a "slut" reads to a first grade child?
If it's my child, my child is done with that school, I'll tell you that.
I just go for brunettes with dark eyes...can’t help it.
Ok...that’s your right...but the question I’m asking here is will being read to by a “slut” somehow harm the child in a way that doesn’t require supernatural entities to explain?
No point in tossing pearls before swine. Although at least swine have no free will to be anything other than swine.
I wish I had 50 acres... More work though. I’d say “when”, not “if”.
It should be noted that she no longer does porn. If you are completely free of all past sins then maybe you have the right to demand that she be shunned. But I doubt it.
If you don’t believe in “supernatural entities”, then your quoting of holy books means nothing, beacuse you have not one single clue of the meaning of said holy books.
But you do and the meaning is evidently plain. If you’d committed any sins in the past, you, by your own reasoning should be shunned as demand that Sasha Grey be shunned. But if you can’t live up to your own holy books then the next best thing is to look down at others.
True. I’d rather let kids be kids, without trying to push them along, and the questions that might ensue from a web search would be inappropriate for anyone in that age group.
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