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You can't make this stuff up V Dictionary banning
wait wut???
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...ban-us-schools 'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools A parent's complaint over a 'sexually graphic' definition has seen dictionaries removed from southern Californian schools Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex". Merriam Webster's 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the "sexually graphic" entry is "just not age appropriate", according to the area's local paper. The dictionary's online definition of the term is "oral stimulation of the genitals". "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper. While some parents have praised the move – "[it's] a prestigious dictionary that's used in the Riverside County spelling bee, but I also imagine there are words in there of concern," said Randy Freeman – others have raised concerns. "It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground," father Jason Rogers told local press. "You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?" A panel is now reviewing whether the Menifee ban will be made permanent. The Merriam Webster dictionary joins an illustrious set of books that have been banned or challenged in the US, including Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, which last year was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a Michigan school after complaints from parents about its coverage of graphic sex and violence, and titles by Khaled Hosseini and Philip Pullman, included in the American Library Association's list of books that inspired most complaints last year. |
california ... go figure
these are probably the same people who let their kids watch shit like jersey shores and listen to mainstream pop music where theres constant sexual references :rolleyes: |
aren't all the "swear" words in the dictionary, and have been forever? are they going to try to have ever word related to sex taken out? wtf.
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Cali fial
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I remember looking up questionable words in the dictionary when I was a little kid :o
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Originally Posted by RB
(Post 4507547)
I remember looking up questionable words in the dictionary when I was a little kid :o
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Originally Posted by JessTD
(Post 4507541)
california ... go figure
these are probably the same people who let their kids watch shit like jersey shores and listen to mainstream pop music where theres constant sexual references :rolleyes: cant forget let their kids smoke legal weed to deal with "the pain". :rolleyes: |
better learning crap from dictionary than finding pRon from parents bedroom
phuck those PC parents |
Originally Posted by Nightshade
(Post 4507553)
As did I and I expect my kids to do it as well...it's just a small rite of passage along with finding out your kids know what all the swear words are and use them when you aren't around.
Originally Posted by RB
(Post 4507547)
I remember looking up questionable words in the dictionary when I was a little kid :o
:o im guilty too :o group of friends look up "vagina" = :reechy: :reechy: :reechy: :ugh: :reechy: same group of friends look up "penis" = :hsugh: :hsugh: :hsugh: :reechy: :hsugh: nelson was the 4th guy :o |
When I was younger, I use to look through National Geographic magazines for tribal titties. :o
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