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Keeping children safe from words

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!

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I heard what you said!

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

  • By 224215152 at 2010-01-28 18:06
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what the hell does that mean,

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.

  • By Single Entendre at 2010-01-28 03:52
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sigh

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

  • By MuttWitch at 2010-01-26 20:25
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No big shock considering this

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

  • By SoundAndFury at 2010-01-26 18:53
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