Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tag's out; expletives're in
A Colorado elementary school will no longer permit students to play tag:
"An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
"'It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,' said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
"Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said."
Meanwhile, Illinois School District 126, which coverins Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak Lawn, has defended its decision to assign summer reading to 12 and 13-year-olds "that is replete with harsh profanity and references to teen sex (even teen sex with adults)." More:
"Prairie Junior High School’s required reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books to choose from over the summer. Parents have complained that three of the six books contain adult content which is highly age-inappropriate. Those complaints, however, have fallen on deaf ears. At a recent school board meeting, school board members said they intend to continue assigning the books. The following are excerpts from just a handful of the many salacious passages found in one of the books, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going:
· God, I want to touch her. Her legs are full. ... If I could just reach under that skirt. ... (p. 6)
· No one beats me or f—s me without my permission. (p. 11)
· F—k off, morons. (p. 47)
· I swear I’ll tear your g—damn, f—ing balls off…(p. 57)
· "She’d f—k you if you stay in the band," he says (p. 141)
· ... and now he has promised me that a forty-something woman will sleep with me if I’m the drummer (p. 142)
"To add insult to injury, the school didn’t even have the courtesy to warn these kids — or their parents — about the adult content within the assigned reading. And parents are understandably furious."
You know, I envision a day in which school-age kids aren't allowed to play tag or dodgeball, or keep score during sporting events, but they'll know all of the ins-and-outs of sex (pun intended) by, oh, age 13. Indeed, I envision a day in which 13-year-old kids can describe human genitalia in better detail than they can describe the rules of grammar.
Come see me in 20 years and tell me I'm wrong!
"An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.
"'It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,' said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.
"Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said."
Meanwhile, Illinois School District 126, which coverins Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak Lawn, has defended its decision to assign summer reading to 12 and 13-year-olds "that is replete with harsh profanity and references to teen sex (even teen sex with adults)." More:
"Prairie Junior High School’s required reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books to choose from over the summer. Parents have complained that three of the six books contain adult content which is highly age-inappropriate. Those complaints, however, have fallen on deaf ears. At a recent school board meeting, school board members said they intend to continue assigning the books. The following are excerpts from just a handful of the many salacious passages found in one of the books, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going:
· God, I want to touch her. Her legs are full. ... If I could just reach under that skirt. ... (p. 6)
· No one beats me or f—s me without my permission. (p. 11)
· F—k off, morons. (p. 47)
· I swear I’ll tear your g—damn, f—ing balls off…(p. 57)
· "She’d f—k you if you stay in the band," he says (p. 141)
· ... and now he has promised me that a forty-something woman will sleep with me if I’m the drummer (p. 142)
"To add insult to injury, the school didn’t even have the courtesy to warn these kids — or their parents — about the adult content within the assigned reading. And parents are understandably furious."
You know, I envision a day in which school-age kids aren't allowed to play tag or dodgeball, or keep score during sporting events, but they'll know all of the ins-and-outs of sex (pun intended) by, oh, age 13. Indeed, I envision a day in which 13-year-old kids can describe human genitalia in better detail than they can describe the rules of grammar.
Come see me in 20 years and tell me I'm wrong!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, August 30, 2007 
