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January 25, 2010 12:58 pm
Menifee School Officials Remove Dictionary
Officials from the Menifee Union School District (Menifee, Ca.) have removed copies of the dictionary from their elementary school classrooms. Officials received a complaint from an elementary school student's parent after the student stumbled upon the definition of "oral sex" in the schools dictionary. The dictionary in question is the "Merriam Webster's 10th edition."
School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the "sexually graphic" entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. "It's just not age appropriate" , Cadmus added.
When I first read this story on a blog, I couldn't believe it. My first thoughts were of the big to-do over Sarah Palin's city library banning books and then the vision of Hitler's book burning episodes. So I traced it back to the Press-Enterprise Newspaper's website. You can read the story and the 361 comments after it at www.pe.com/localnews/menifee/stories/PE_News.
One interesting responses was given by "Guest" who quoted Ezekiel 23:20 as, "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (I had to look it up to confirm it) I guess we had better get rid of those Bibles as well.
January 25, 2010 12:58 pm
Menifee School Officials Remove Dictionary
Officials from the Menifee Union School District (Menifee, Ca.) have removed copies of the dictionary from their elementary school classrooms. Officials received a complaint from an elementary school student's parent after the student stumbled upon the definition of "oral sex" in the schools dictionary. The dictionary in question is the "Merriam Webster's 10th edition."
School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the "sexually graphic" entry, said district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus. "It's just not age appropriate" , Cadmus added.
When I first read this story on a blog, I couldn't believe it. My first thoughts were of the big to-do over Sarah Palin's city library banning books and then the vision of Hitler's book burning episodes. So I traced it back to the Press-Enterprise Newspaper's website. You can read the story and the 361 comments after it at www.pe.com/localnews/menifee/stories/PE_News.
One interesting responses was given by "Guest" who quoted Ezekiel 23:20 as, "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (I had to look it up to confirm it) I guess we had better get rid of those Bibles as well.
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