[NYer]

Earling apologized. “We were not trying to create controversy. We were just trying to get students to read,” he said.

Stick with the classics ... they not only encourage reading but also teach solid values.

[surroundedbyblue]

This is a sick outrage!!! I’d love to homeschool to avoid this rubbish but I am not able to do that. I guess I’ll have to stock up on plenty of Pepcid & beta blockers and get ready for a fight once my kid starts school. Ugh.

[Paperdoll]

It is high time parents become involved in what their kids are exposed to in government schools. In fact it was time 40 years ago!

[Travis McGee]

The Gramscian culture sabateurs never rest.

[Erik Latranyi]

...the committee “didn’t feel it was inappropriate based on the language that’s used, common language used on the street.”

Nothing like reinforcing the gutter!

[concerned about politics]

The books, school officials say, were included on the list by a group of teachers, librarians, and administrators, and approved by the board of education.

Support school choice. Get this passed, and only the democrat kids will be indoctrinated into this type of behavior.
Help the other kids to escape. Some parents can't afford to save their kids from being taught this type of left wing bile. They need our help.

[wastedyears]

Maybe they should try some science fiction.

[Teflonic]

So they purged the titles from the summer reading list...after summer is over? Damage is already done, sue and fire those responsible.

[CitizenM]

No wonder our morals are in the tank. I don't care if these books are about homo-or heterosexuals. Books that contain depictions of a 31-year-old woman raping a 13-year-old girl, and a story about addiction, describing an orgy scene as well as the details of drug use just are not appropriate reading for any school aged child...K thru 12.
The “adults” who approved these should be made to experience the hell that is described in the stories. Maybe if they were raped and addicted beyond control they would not find it so appropriate to suggest these books to impressionable teens who might think these lifestyles are to be emulated.

[jersey117]

What do they expect? They don’t speak out when the gay agenda is pushed through legislature, TV, and everywhere else. Everyone’s afraid to be called an intolerant bigot. Too cowardly to speak out. So this is where we are.

[Gene Eric]

And the teachers just march along to the drumbeat of Leftism like stupefied tools.

[Grunthor]

“Norwegian Wood,” a novel by Haruki Murakami, includes a graphic depiction of a 31-year-old woman raping a 13-year-old girl”

We come a long way from “Heather has two mommies.”

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So school children are exposed to "literature" that makes the Marguis de Sade look like milk and water. Why anyone thinks that school authorities who want to destroy children will not immediately find other insidious ways and should not be trusted with any children for one minute is beyond me. It's like a pedophile who tried something with a child but was nabbed before the deed. Should the pedophile be given "another chance"? These educators (so called) are nothing more than pedophiles. People need to WAKE UP and see where this is going. It's already hell in a handbasket.

[freekitty]

There is no reason for those books to be on reading lists for kids.

[metmom]

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[hosepipe]

No proper outrage is outrageous..
Where are the pitchforks and torches..

[wintertime]

Where are the reports of the so-called “good” teachers who petitioned the governor, held press conferences, protested, and organized parents and Christian and conservative grass roots organizations?

Hm? Where are the “good” teachers?

My conclusion: There are none. There are merely evil teachers and timid, hypocritical, and sniveling Useful Idiots who collect paychecks and pensions wrongly believing they are sprinkling a little “salt and light” around.

[SuperLuminal]

Committing your offspring to a government indoctrination asylum should be a felony child-abuse offense punishable by 20-years rendition to the former Soviet Gulag.

Idiot parents who lay down with dogs should complain about the fleas...

[ourworldawry]

Even though I have no more “school-age” children, it doesn’t stop me from praying for those who do.

[Neoliberalnot]

Nothing like preparing little boys to engage in the healthy practice of fecal consumption. If only homowood would show these perverts for what they are—it ain’t the will and Grace show.