you have GOT to be kidding me

[mickeym]

Original link via giogio, and then I went looking for more. Sadly, I found it.



Menifee School Officials Remove Dictionary Over Term 'Oral Sex'
By JULISSA McKINNON
The Press-Enterprise

After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across "oral sex" in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster's 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week.


Read the rest of the article here.

Comments

[ellipsisblack.livejournal.com]

Man, parents these days are killjoys.

Looking up naughty words in the dictionary was like a rite of passage in my primary school.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

I... WHAT??? They're DICTIONARIES!!!

[kitanabychoice.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS THIS--

I DON'T EVEN--

WHY.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Looking up naughty words in the dictionary is a rite of passage for ANY kid. Or should be. I mean, good lord. The shit people worry about these days -- my son comes home from school talking about sex stuff that he hears from his friends and other students, and honest to God, I'd rather he be able to look it up in a dictionary than go on what some of the kids think shit means!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I know! And yet, I'd bet you money that the ones all up in arms over it are the same ones who buy their little girls the shorts with "Cutie" written across the butt, and shit like that.

The people in this country need to get a fucking grip.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

They really, truly do. I'm still baffled. How the HELL do you have a school with no dictionary?!?!

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I do not know, but Jesus Christ. It's beyond insane.

[nekkidchick.livejournal.com]

WHAT. THE. FUCK. I mean... there's just nothing else to say, the ignorance is just too mind-blowingly ridiculous.

[ellipsisblack.livejournal.com]

Seriously. And nice work on the school showing some spine. Not.

[fufaraw]

People? Stupid.

Because somebody banned their damned dictionaries. ::nods::

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

First of all, that kid did not STUMBLE ACROSS "oral sex". His/her only error was in telling mom about it. Second, the dictionary? ARE YOU SHITTING ME.