Keeping children safe from words

ammit — Tue, 01/26/2010 - 13:04

A southern California school district has pulled a strange book from ~~fourth and fifth grade classrooms~~ all school shelves: the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Hidden amongst innocent words like "duodenum" and "rape" was "oral sex." ONOES! (updated link to better story)

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I heard what you said!

224215152 — Thu, 01/28/2010 - 18:06

Freeman said 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."

NIGGER FAGGOT

what the hell does that mean,

Single Entendre — Thu, 01/28/2010 - 03:52

what the hell does that mean, "words of concern"??? It's a fucking dictionary. It'd be a goddamn shame if kids, I dunno, learned something. If sex is in there, oral sex might as well. If you're taking sex out, might as well just nuke SoCal.

sigh

MuttWitch — Tue, 01/26/2010 - 20:25

OMG-my kid better not get any FACTS about these things. What their friends tell them is surely enough.

No big shock considering this

SoundAndFury — Tue, 01/26/2010 - 18:53

No big shock considering this happened in the state of... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah? *sigh*

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